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New Public Health England (PHE) report shows a decline in men and women having home cancer test.
This 2012 campaign encouraged people to see their doctor if they have had blood in their poo or looser poo for the last 3 weeks.
The UK National Screening Committee has published 11 recommendations including improvements to existing screening programmes.
PHE figures show that the roll out target of screening centres offering the latest bowel cancer screening test has been exceeded.
One in three people are embarrassed to talk to their doctor about poo even though having blood in poo is a key symptom of bowel cancer which can kill.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
A short factsheet to support GPs in the first NHS national bowel cancer symptom awareness campaign in England is available.
Letter from Paul Burstow dated 23 September 2020, informing colleagues on plans to run large-scale pilot campaigns to promote early diagnosis of bowel cancer.
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