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• Cancer >> Bowel screening >> FOBt with normal result >> Interview 27 >> She was impressed by the screening programme but felt a bit embarrassed about taking part.

Invited to be screened for bowel cancer three times, between 2000 and 2005. The result of the Faecal Occult Blood (FOB) test has been normal each time.

• Cancer >> Bowel screening >> FOBt with normal result >> Interview 13 >> She ignored the invitation at first because she thought the whole idea “disgusting”.

When she was first invited to be screened for bowel cancer she declined, but later, in 2006, when aged 58, she decided to do the Faecal Occult Blood (FOB) test. The result was normal.

• Cancer >> Bowel screening >> Declined FOBt >> Interview 11 >> He found colonoscopy embarrassing, undignified and depressing. This was one reason why he did not want to take part in screening.

He was invited to be screened for bowel cancer in 2005, when aged 67, but for various reasons he decided not to take part.

• Cancer >> Bowel screening >> Colonoscopy, all normal >> Interview 38 >> She was given antibiotics just before the colonoscopy because she had a leaking mitral valve in her heart.

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.