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What is BowelScreen?
Can I take part in the BowelScreen programme?
Who can get bowel cancer screening in Ireland?
BowelScreen is a free home screening test for bowel cancer in people age 59 to 69 living in Ireland. You need to be on the bowel screening register before you get a test and you can register by phone, email or online.
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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.
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.
