Cancer test fit for life with early screening

A simpler bowel cancer screening test is being rolled out across Scotland.

The“Fit” test uses a single bowel motion sample, while the current test requires samples over three days.

Visiting the Scottish bowel screening lab in Nine wells Hospital, Dundee, health secretary Shona Robison said the new test would boost screening uptake and help save lives.

She said: “This new test will help us to better treat bowel cancer, Scotland’ s second largest cancer killer with 1,600 deaths ever y year.”

Claire Donaghy, head of Scotland at Bowel Cancer UK, said: “This is an important and crucial step forward in saving more lives from bowel cancer.

“Screening remains one of the most effective ways of detecting bowel cancer in its earliest stages.”