Cancer Test - What a fantastic idea!!!

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Definitely a brilliant idea, think everyone who can should do it. My mum was diagnosed with bowel cancer just over a year ago, she suffered no symptoms and it was just very lucky she was seeing the GP anyway (piles ) and the GP picked it up. Because they got it early she avoided all the chemo etc and has had a relatively easy recovery, but still isn't back to herself after a year so god knows what she'd be like if it had been caught later.

Far too easy a thing to miss, this test is vital.

A great idea in concept but will the ones who really should do it test themselves??

Hypochndriacs will have another home testing kit to add to the already blossoming pile of tests ...

But it's not exactly a difficult test - well not for the one doing it, maybe for the one who has to test it . Hypocondriacs can still get bowel cancer, it's such a common thing and so hard to detect on your own that surely it's worth it?

Sometimes peeing on a stick is hard for some... Reading the result is a whole different thread...

Sometimes opposible thumbs isn't an advantage

The Department of Health has already issued more than 300,000 testing kits in England.

Of these, 2,500 positive results have been returned and those patients are now receiving treatment.

That is alot of people they helped!

Well at least they haven't got to read their own result and Gillian McKeith manages to collect 'specimens' for sod all except to smell and wrinkle her face up at so it can't be that much of a drag

I just have a mental picture of my mum trying to get a sample from my stroppy I'm not sick me' father...

Cancer is pretty indiscriminate disease... just hope the NHS has the facilities and PCT's have the NICE consultations in place to give the positive patients the necessary treatment..

Dh took part in the early trials for this screening and it's now been rolled out over Scotland for all 50+yo (I think). TMI warning - the test involves sending off just a teensy-weensy sample, literally a smudge, not lorry-loads of manure a la GK. I find doing the test a bit yukky, tbh, but dh rather enjoys doing his; it's a man thing, I guess.

Not much frigging good if you are only forty, though, is it?

Well, no, but statistically it's rare under the age of 50 so I assume the test is aimed at those most at risk.