Promotional material: Bowel cancer screening: benefits and risks
This leaflet is sent out with all invitations to take part in bowel cancer screening.
Free printed copies of this leaflet are provided for the NHS bowel cancer screening programme hubs (or their mail distributors) to send to people with screening invitations.
This information is also available in HTML format for print for people who cannot access digital information.
Instructions on how to use the home test kit are available in English and 30 other languages. There is also a short animation explaining how to use the kit with subtitled versions in English, British Sign Language and other languages.
Resources for people with a learning disability and people with low levels of literacy include:
Translations of the leaflet are available.
Published 1 February 2011
Last updated 14 February 2025 + show all updates