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Colorectal screening - Management
How is the screening test done?
- A testing kit complete with full instructions (pdf) is sent out 1 week after an invitation for screening.
- Two samples are collected from each of three separate bowel motions by the person at home, using the cardboard sticks provided.
- One of three flaps on the testing kit is peeled back for each bowel motion. A sample is applied to each of the two exposed windows before resealing the window.
- Once all six windows have been used the kit is returned for analysis.
- The kit must be returned within 14 days of the first sample being taken.
[NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme, 2006]
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