Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Getty Images/iStockphoto) The NHS is urging millions of people in England who have been sent a home testing kit for bowel cancer ...

All 50 to 74-year-olds in England will receive a home-testing kit for bowel cancer every two years, as the NHS expands its lifesaving screening programme. The age is now being lowered from 54 to 50 ...

The home testing kits are free and sent to eligible households automatically.

A woman who thought she was perfectly healthy has urged others to take a simple NHS bowel cancer test after it helped save her life. Grace Stearn, 54, from Truro, said she had "no symptoms whatsoever" ...

The NHS is urging millions of people in England who have been sent a home testing kit for bowel cancer to use it and return it. Every month, half a million free Faecal Immunichemical Test kits (FIT) ...