Cancer
Cancer Screening and You
Detecting cancer early helps you to get treatment you need earlier and saves lives. If you have any concerns please speak to your GP or Nurse at the practice.
Please follow the links for more information
Website: www.cancerresearchuk.org
Poster: Cancer Screening
Bowel Cancer Screening
The symptoms for this can be difficult to spot, so it is important that you
If you are between 56- 74, you will receive a kit through the post. It is really important that you do the test even if you had another bowel investigation recently as they may be looking for different conditions.
Prostate Cancer Screening
1 in 8 men in the UK will be diagnosed with Prostate Cancer. It rises to 1 in 4 in Black men.
If you would like to undergo a blood test to screen for this and you are over 50 please come and speak to your GP
Cervical Screening
Women between 25- 50 will receive an invitation every 3 years. If you are between 50- 64 years you will receive an invitation every 5 years.
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Information available in other languages.
- Poster: Cervical Screening – Arabic
- Poster: Cervical Screening – Urdu
- Poster: Cervical Screening – Punjabi
- Poster: Cervical Screening – Portuguese
- Poster: Cervical Screening – Polish
- Poster: Cervical Screening – Gujarati
- Poster: Cervical Screening – French
- Poster: Cervical Screening – Chinese HK
- Poster: Cervical Screening – Chinese CN
- Poster: Cervical Screening – Bengali
Breast Cancer Screening
All women between 50-71 will receive an invite through the post every 3 years
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