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Bowel Screening Programme<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Bowel Screening checks if you could have bowel cancer. You use a home test kit to collect a small sample of poo and send it to a laboratory. The sample is checked for tiny amounts of blood.<\/strong>

If the test finds anything unusual, you might be asked to go to hospital to have further tests to confirm or rule out cancer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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