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• Cancer >> Bowel screening >> Diagnosed with polyps >> Interview 22 >> He was not to eat or drink anything on the morning of the colonoscopy, during which a polyp was removed.

Invited for screening in 2006, aged 64. The result of the Faecal Occult Blood (FOB) test was unclear so he repeated the test, which was abnormal. He had a colonoscopy, and a non-malignant polyp was removed.

• Cancer >> Bowel screening >> Diagnosed with polyps >> Interview 18 >> The doctor explained that he had removed some polyps and had sent them to the laboratory for analysis.

Invited for screening in 2006, when aged 69. The Faecal Occult Blood (FOB) test was abnormal. This led to a colonoscopy, a biopsy, and then another colonoscopy and the removal of benign polyps.

• Cancer >> Bowel screening >> Diagnosed with polyps >> Interview 42 >> When she woke up she learnt that she had to have an operation to remove a polyp. At the time they didn't know if it was benign or cancerous.

In 2006 her Faecal Occult Blood (FOB) test was abnormal, so she had a colonoscopy. Three small polyps were removed. She had a right hemi-colectomy to remove a larger polyp, which was not malignant.

• Cancer >> Bowel screening >> Colonoscopy, all normal >> Interview 38 >> Immediately after her colonoscopy the nurse told her that the doctor had seen a slightly enlarged valve separating the large bowel from the small bowe

Invited to be screened for bowel cancer 3 times, between 2002 and 2006. The last Faecal Occult Blood (FOB) test result was abnormal so she had a colonoscopy, but nothing abnormal was found in the bowel.

• Cancer >> Bowel screening >> Diagnosed with polyps >> Interview 18 >> Tissue samples from his polyps were found to be benign (non-cancerous). He needed another colonoscopy so that the polyps could be removed.

Invited for screening in 2006, when aged 69. The Faecal Occult Blood (FOB) test was abnormal. This led to a colonoscopy, a biopsy, and then another colonoscopy and the removal of benign polyps.