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You can get bowel cancer screening if you are age 59 to 69 and live in Ireland. You need to be on the bowel screening register before you’re offered a home screening test. Speak to your GP if. you're outside the current age range for bowel screening and you: are worried about symptoms of bowel cancer. have a family history of bowel cancer.
Bowel screening aims to detect signs of bowel cancer at an early stage, where there are no symptoms. Bowel cancer is also known as colon, rectal or colorectal cancer. Around 2,800 people are diagnosed with bowel cancer in Ireland every year.
The home screening test is a simple way to check for a level of blood in your poo (stool). It is also known as the faecal immunochemical test or ‘FIT test’. Blood in your poo does not tell you if you have bowel cancer. But it might tell you that you need more tests. Getting the BowelScreen home test.
BowelScreen is the National Bowel Screening Programme which offers free bowel screening to people aged 59 to 69 every 2 years. Bowel screening aims to detect signs of bowel cancer at an early stage, where there are no symptoms. How much does the test cost? The test is free and is done by you at home.
Bowel screening aims to detect signs of bowel cancer at an early stage, where there are no symptoms. (You can read more about symptoms on page 10.) Around 2,600 people are diagnosed with bowel cancer in Ireland every year. Bowel cancer is the second most common cancer in men and the third most common cancer in women in Ireland. If we find bowel ...
Bowel cancer screening is used to detect cancer in people who have no symptoms. Screening helps to detect bowel cancer at an early stage when there is a much better chance of treating it successfully. In Ireland screening is organised by the HSE BowelScreen programme.
BowelScreen is Ireland’s free bowel screening programme. We screen healthy people who do not have symptoms. We do this so that we can find and treat bowel cancer at an early stage. Part of National Screening Service. What we do. We strive to reduce how many people get sick and die from bowel cancer. Here is some of the work we do:
