Home-testing kits that detect bowel cancer could almost halve invasive examinations by 2020

  • Home / Home-testing kits that detect bowel cancer could almost halve invasive examinations by 2020

Home-testing kits that detect bowel cancer could almost halve invasive examinations by 2020

This post is from the NHS England News Feed

A major NHS England funded study is expected to almost halve the number of invasive procedures by 2020 by improving the accuracy of home-testing kits that detect bowel cancer from invisible amounts of blood. This could mean more than 100,000 NHS patients in England avoid the need for uncomfortable colonoscopies each year by first getting […]

About Post Author

Medical CPD & News

The Digitalis CPD trawler searches the web for all the latest news and journals.

Privacy Preference Center

Close your account?

Your account will be closed and all data will be permanently deleted and cannot be recovered. Are you sure?

Are you sure?

By disagreeing you will no longer have access to our site and will be logged out.