The National Health Service (NHS) has expanded its life-saving screening programme in England by rolling out home testing kits to hundreds of thousands of individuals aged 50 years to detect signs of ...

Women in England who have consistently missed their cervical screening appointments will soon be offered the option of performing DIY tests at home, in a significant move aimed at boosting uptake and ...

A ‘fit and healthy’ father says taking a bowel cancer screening test that dropped on his doorstep was like a “winning lottery ticket” after it saved his life. Steve Hollington, 58, was diagnosed with ...

Since the NHS Jewish BRCA Testing Programme began in January 2023, around 11,000 saliva tests have been processed, with 235 people (2.1%) testing positive for a BRCA gene mutation, according to new ...

An NHS doctor has suggested that signing up for a free at-home test could help "prevent" certain cancer cases from developing. These screening kits can identify warning signs that might otherwise go ...