Bowel Health Screening

Bowel health tests can help detect early signs of bowel cancer and are a reliable way to test at home. They should be used alongside medical advice and support, Community pharmacies with their location, accessibility, knowledge, expertise and ability to signpost patients have simple and easy to use bowel health test kits that patients can use in the comfort of their own home. Thererore there are many benefits to a community pharmacy offering a Bowel Cancer Health Promotion Camapign,

We all know it is usually easier and more convenient to visit a community pharmacy than the GP surgery.

Therefore, the benefits of running campaign include:

• The sooner bowel cancer is diagnosed, the easier it is to treat
• Taking part in bowel cancer screening lowers your risk of dying from bowel cancer
• Screening can pick up cancers at an early stage, when there's a good chance of successful treatment. If bowel cancer is diagnosed at the earliest stage, more than nine in ten people will be successfully treated
• Screening can find non-cancerous growths (polyps) in the bowel that may develop into cancer in the future. Removing these polyps can reduce your risk of getting bowel cancer.

Because any conversation involving the bowels is a highly sensitive subject and difficult to approach others about there is also some very useful information explaining how to set up a Bowel Cancer health promotion campaign on Numarknet. Remember the hardest part is that initial conversation and a very good reason for that conversation could be the running of a health promotion campaign. The document can be found at Numark Bowel Cancer Service and within this link there is also a link to the 2San Bowel Cancer (FIT) Test (Case Only - Case Size 8) (6781520) available from Numark which patients can do at home.