Bowel Cancer Screening Kits

[Bazile]

Are those kits ( the ones the NHS send you through the post )testing just for bowel cancer or will it pick up any other cancers , from the sample ?

[Sqad]

Just bowel cancers and pre cancerous bowel polyps.

[Bazile]

So it wouldn't pick up a cancer which had ( for example ) originated and spread to the bowel from another part / organ in the body ?

Is it just looking for cancer that originates in the bowel ?

[bednobs]

just bowel cancer

[douglas9401]

As far as I read on the instructions enclosed the test is for occult blood in the sample which leads to further investigation, not a cancer test as such.

[Sqad]

Yes 99.9% of the time.
Cancers elsewhere don't spread to the bowel.
An Ovarian or bladder cancer might invade the colon, but that would be end stage and would have had symptoms for a long time.
Kits are basically for asymptomatic bowel cancer.

[Bazile]

Thanks
I was just thinking about the cancers that men and women have .
For example prostate men - cervical women and whether cancer spread form those , would be picked up by the bowel cancer kits

[Sqad]

NO.

[perseverer]

Positive test likely to lead to a colonoscopy and if there are polyps they will be removed.

(Internal piles could be responsible for the blood.)