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Bowel Cancer when diagnosed among people that are completely fit and healthy and no family history of the disease can be quite a bolt from the blue. Often a dot size of a red ink spot is the sole early sign of bowel cancer. Frequently, general practitioners tend to dismiss this symptom for piles telling their patients to not be worried about it. Bowel Cancer Screening can help spot the disease early on. However, regrettably in countries like England, bowel cancer screening is offered only when one turns sixty years old and above. But, Scotland and other countries in the European Union this screening is obtainable from fifty years of age. More than a hundred individuals are identified with bowel cancer on a daily basis in Britain. The death rates are soaring with sixteen thousand fatalities  [...]

A harrowing 1.5 million individuals belonging to the high-risk bracket of developing bowel cancer have overlooked a hassle-free, gratis test that could be beneficial in spotting preliminary signs of the disease – that is deemed among the most fatal forms of cancers, but is treatable in 9 out of 10 cases. Conceivably, this wide populace of people are apprehensive about the follow-up tests, however, the most modern procedure – virtual colonoscopy involves no pain or the need for anaesthesia. The NHS initiated its countrywide bowel cancer screening plan 3 years back endeavouring to curb fatalities that have mounted to sixteen thousand annually. Only prostate and lung cancer are known to take lives of more men and just breast cancer alone is observed to claim the lives of more women. From  [...]

Diagnosis & Tests Screening could help in diagnosing polyp growths prior to them turning malignant and for detecting colon cancer in its preliminary stages when the recovery rates are much higher. The widely used screening and analytic procedures for colorectal cancer are: Fecal Occult Test or Blood Stool Test – This procedure is used for checking any traces of blood in the stool or feces. This test could be conducted at the office of the general practitioner, the primary care doctor or in most cases a self-explanatory kit is provided for taking the sample at one’s home. The sample taken is then to be returned to the doctor’s office in order to be forwarded for laboratory analysis. A blood stool test does not have total accuracy as not all cancers can be identified since bleeding  [...]