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• Cancer >> Bowel screening >> Doing the Faecal Occult Blood test at home >> Doing the Faecal Occult Blood test at home

Doing the Faecal Occult Blood test at home

• Cancer >> Bowel screening >> Storing the samples and posting them >> Storing the samples and posting them

Storing the samples and posting them

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• Cancer >> Bowel screening >> FOBt with normal result >> Interview 13 >> The Faecal Occult Blood test (FOBt) kit instructions were very clear.

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 >> Diagnosed with polyps >> Interview 22 >> He smeared two samples of a stool onto the test card on three different occasions.

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 36 >> Suggests that you read the instructions before opening the test kit.

Screened for bowel cancer in 2006, when aged 70. The result of the Faecal Occult Blood (FOB) test was abnormal, so she had a colonoscopy, during which some benign polyps were removed.

• Cancer >> Bowel screening >> Interview 47 >> Andrea Giles, specialist screening practitioner, talks about the Faecal Occult Blood test.

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• Cancer >> Bowel screening >> Diagnosed with polyps >> Interview 20 >> Shows the type of test card he used and explains that you must not open the back of it.

Invited for screening in 2001. The result of his Faecal Occult Blood (FOB) test was abnormal. He had a colonoscopy and polypectomy. Subsequent colonoscopies have all been normal.

• Cancer >> Bowel screening >> Diagnosed with polyps >> Interview 24 >> Explains that if you had frequent bowel motions you could do the test on three different occasions on the same day.

Screened in 2001 and 2003. Results were normal. In 2005 he did another Faecal Occult Blood (FOB) test. The result was unclear. Another test was abnormal, so he had a colonoscopy, during which two polyps were removed. These were not malignant.

• Cancer >> Bowel screening >> Diagnosed with polyps >> Interview 37 >> Missing a day did not matter as long as stool samples were taken on three different occasions.

He was invited to be screened for bowel cancer in 2006, when aged 65. After an abnormal Faecal Occult Blood test he had a colonoscopy, during which two benign polyps were removed.

• Cancer >> Bowel screening >> Diagnosed with polyps >> Interview 28 >> She wrongly thought the samples from her bowel motion had to be put on the card on alternate days.

She asked if she could be screened for bowel cancer. The result of a Faecal Occult Blood (FOB) test was abnormal, so she had a colonoscopy, during which two benign polyps were removed.

• Cancer >> Bowel screening >> FOBt unclear, then normal >> Interview 08 >> She took part in the pilot programme. It required some dietary restrictions because it was thought that the results of the test might be affected by c

Screened in 2001, aged 65. The result of the Faecal Occult Blood (FOB) test was normal. The result of another test in 2004 was unclear, so she repeated it, after following a special diet. The result was normal.

• Cancer >> Bowel screening >> The instructions for using the FOBt kit >> The instructions for using the FOBt kit

The instructions for using the FOBt kit