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Scottish Bowel Screening Programme

 
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Bowel cancer is the third most common cancer in Scotland after lung and breast cancer. Every year, over 3,000 people are diagnosed with the disease.

The Scottish Bowel Screening Programme invites all men and women in Scotland between the ages of 50 to 74 for screening every two years.

Information updated on 28 March 2012.

 

Further resources

Access the Scottish Bowel Screening Programme website at www.bowelscreening.scot.nhs.uk/ or use these direct links:

Access Scottish Bowel Cancer Screening information on the National Services Division website at: www.nsd.scot.nhs.uk/services/screening/bowel.html

 
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