Woman Diagnosed with Bowel Cancer through Home Test

She took part in the HSE ’s free national bowel cancer screening programme , which includes a test kit for people to send off a stool sample to check for the disease. Read more: Cork mum shares the four health signs she noticed a month before breast cancer diagnosis

“It came with really clear instructions and I sent off my sample. About a week later, I got a letter back to say that they had found blood in my sample and it wasn’t visible to the naked eye. “The HSE programme was really good, because they stayed in contact and I went for a colonoscopy. I was told by the nurse that day that I had bowel cancer.

“Hearing the word cancer was very scary. I struggled to even say it when I was telling people afterwards.”

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