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• Cancer >> Bowel screening >> Diagnosed with polyps >> Interview 30 >> He developed various alarming side effects after the colonoscopy.

Screened for bowel cancer in 2006. The result was abnormal, so he had a colonoscopy. Six polyps were removed. They were all benign except one, which was "potentially malignant". He will have another colonoscopy in 2007.

• Cancer >> Bowel screening >> Colonoscopy, all normal >> Interview 29 >> After the colonoscopy he had pain in the area of his colon and later diarrhoea.

Invited to be screened for bowel cancer in 2006, when aged 61. His Faecal Occult Blood (FOB) test was abnormal, so he had a colonoscopy. Nothing abnormal was found during the procedure.

• Cancer >> Bowel screening >> Diagnosed with cancer >> Interview 34 >> He had pain from wind for about 45 minutes after the colonoscopy. The pain got better gradually after he sat on the toilet for a while.

Invited to be screened for bowel cancer in 2006, when aged 61. The result of the Faecal Occult Blood (FOB) test was abnormal, so he had a colonoscopy. One polyp was removed, which was found to be cancerous.

• Cancer >> Bowel screening >> Diagnosed with cancer >> Interview 45 >> She had 'terrible' cramp and lay on the sofa all night with a hot water bottle.

When screened for bowel cancer in 2005, the Faecal Occult Blood (FOB) test was abnormal, so she had a colonoscopy. Two polyps were removed. One was found to be malignant (cancerous). Now she is well.

• Cancer >> Bowel screening >> Colonoscopy, all normal >> Interview 38 >> She thought she was OK the morning after the colonoscopy, went shopping with her husband, and felt as if she would pass out.

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 cancer >> Interview 46 >> Describes the operation, the pain relief, and post-operative care. She got 'fantastic' care from the nurses and doctors.

Invited to be screened for bowel cancer in 2006. The result of the Faecal Occult Blood (FOB) test was abnormal, so she had a colonoscopy, when five polyps were removed. One polyp was cancerous, so she had a left hemi-colectomy.

• Cancer >> Bowel screening >> Diagnosed with cancer >> Interview 46 >> Describes the operation, the pain relief, and post-operative care. She got 'fantastic' care from the nurses and doctors.

Invited to be screened for bowel cancer in 2006. The result of the Faecal Occult Blood (FOB) test was abnormal, so she had a colonoscopy, when five polyps were removed. One polyp was cancerous, so she had a left hemi-colectomy.

• Cancer >> Bowel screening >> Diagnosed with polyps >> Interview 42 >> Part of her bowel was removed because the polyps in her bowel were considered potentially malignant.

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 >> Diagnosed with cancer >> Interview 15 >> He had a right hemi-colectomy to remove part of the bowel. When he woke up he felt no pain because he had had an epidural as well as a general anaesth

In 2001, aged 64, he was screened for bowel cancer. The result of the Faecal Occult Blood (FOB) test was abnormal. After a colonoscopy he was diagnosed with cancer and had surgery.

• 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.

• Cancer >> Bowel screening >> Diagnosed with polyps >> Interview 18 >> Having a colonoscopy was easier than having a tooth out.

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 >> Interview 47 >> Andrea Giles, specialist screening practitioner, explains 'sedation'.

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