If you get a Bowel cancer screening kit - use it!
Bowel cancer is the 3rd most common type of cancer, and it can affect anyone. This is why it's important that anyone that receives a bowel cancer screening kit uses it. It only takes a few minutes and could save your life.
When you turn 50 until you’re 74, you’ll get a kit automatically posted to your home address every 2 years. Screening can help prevent bowel cancer or find it at an early stage when it's easier to treat. All you have to do is follow the simple instructions, pop it back in the letterbox, and get your results back in around 10 days.
Find out more on the Waltham Forest Council website.
You can watch videos of two local residents speaking about the importance of bowel cancer screening and why they would encourage everyone to do it when theirs arrives.
- Meet Patty [Watch video here]
- Meet Phil [Watch video here]
