I've heard a number of people are not sending the home test kits back. Coventry and Tayside in Scotland are both taking part in a two- year pilot bowel cancer screening programme which started in September last year. If it is a success it could be extended to the whole country. People in Coventry between the ages of 50 and 69 are being sent home testing kits. They have to smear a small sample of bowel movement on a card and then return the sample for testing at Rugby's Hospital of St Cross.
Bowel cancer is the second commonest cause of cancer death in the country.