Bowel Cancer
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Find relevant Bowel Cancer screening data
Scottish bowel screening programme statistics
"This report by Public Health Scotland provides an update to key performance indicators for the Scottish Bowel Screening Programme. The report includes uptake, laboratory and clinical outcomes of screened individuals, for those invited May 2020 to April 2022."
"The Scottish Bowel Screening Programme invites those aged 50 to 74 to be screened every two years. Participants are sent a test kit to their home and return a sample from a bowel motion to the Bowel Screening Laboratory. Those with a positive test result are referred to their health board of residence for follow-up, with the majority receiving a colonoscopy."
"Bowel cancer is the third most common cancer and the second most common cause
of death due to cancer in Scotland. "