Bowel Screening Wales

Bowel cancer is the third most common cancer in Wales.

1,000 people die from it each year in Wales.

 

 

If you are aged between 60 and 69, you will receive a bowel screening kit through the post over the next two years.

 

We are inviting people according to their date of birth and by the end of 2009 will have invited all people who are aged between 60 and 69 and resident in Wales with a birthday before the 1st August. During 2010 we will invite people aged between 60 and 69 years of age with birthdays between August and December.

 

You will be able to carry out the test at home and in private.

 

You can also find further information about bowel cancer and bowel screening on this website.

 

Regular bowel screening has been shown to reduce the risk of dying from bowel cancer by 15%.

 

Screening detects bowel cancer at an early stage – often when there are no symptoms – and yet when treatment is most effective.

 

The Bowel Screening Wales programme is beginning with people aged 60 and 69.

 

 

>>> Information leaflets now available in Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Chinese (Traditional), Gujarati, Hindu, Italian, Japanese, Nepali, Polish, Portugese, Punjabi, Somalian, Turkish and Urdu.

 

The screening programme is delivered by Velindre NHS Trust, in conjunction with all NHS Trusts in Wales.