Bowel Screening

Bowel cancer is Scotland's third most common cancer, with almost 4,000 people diagnosed every year.

Bowel screening is the most effective way to find bowel cancer early, when it is most treatable.

If you are aged 50-74 please return the test kit you will have received recently.

If you have lost it please call 0800 0121 833

Further information is available from NHS Inform HERE

Common Questions and Answers Here

Page last reviewed: 09 April 2026
Page created: 09 April 2026