Bowel Cancer Screening Tests

What is Bowel Screening?

Bowel Screening tests, also called Faecal Immunochemical Test (FIT tests), use a small sample of your stool (poo) to check for tiny traces of blood.

Blood in your stool can be a sign of problems in your bowel, such as polyps, ulcers, or inflammation caused by diverticulitis or Crohns disease.

It it also a common sign of bowel cancer, so it’s important to get checked out if you’re experiencing persistent blood in your poo.

Collect a stool sample at home

Send your sample to our accredited partner laboratory

Results emailed to you in 3-5 days after receipt at the laboratory

Detects anything higher than 2 μg/g of blood in faeces

Highly accurate even with tiny traces

Quantitative results report from leading UK laboratory

Collect a stool sample at home

Follow the instructions to analyse sample immediately yourself

Positive or Negative result visible in 5 minutes

Detects anything higher than 6 μg/g of blood in faeces

Accurate home test solution

Qualitative, lateral flow results visible on test kit

Have a small blood sample taken

Blood analysed at a leading laboratory

Detects the earliest evidence of bowel cancer tumour cells

Can detect stage 1 and 2 cancers before it spreads

Test at home or in a local clinic

Results discussed with a doctor