Bowel Cancer Screening: The Facts

This leaflet gives information about bowel cancer, and the benefits and risks of bowel cancer screening. It aims to help people make an informed choice about taking part in the NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme.

Please note, your GP and the local press will be informed when the NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme reaches your area.

Printed January 2007 Large Print Version

Arabic (PDF 230Kb) Bengali (PDF 315Kb) Chinese (PDF 214Kb) English (PDF 173Kb) Updated November 2008 Farsi (PDF 180Kb) French (PDF 86Kb) Greek (PDF 226Kb) Gujarati (PDF 83Kb) Hindi (PDF 117Kb) Italian (PDF 88Kb) Kurdish (Sorani) (PDF 115Kb) Polish (PDF 220Kb) Portuguese (PDF 47Kb) Punjabi (PDF 106Kb) Somali (PDF 84Kb) Spanish (PDF 87Kb) Turkish (PDF 215Kb) Ukrainian (PDF 237Kb) Urdu (PDF 559Kb) Vietnamese (PDF 263Kb)

This leaflet is also available in a British Sign Language DVD and in an audio CD set.

Health professionals can order English copies of the leaflets from the Department of Health publication orderline: Telephone: 0300 123 1002, Textphone: 0300 123 1003, Fax: 01623 724 524, Email orders: [email protected] or order directly from the Department of Health Publications Orderline website. Translations of the leaflet are available as downloads only (see list above)

Leaflets may only be ordered in areas where the bowel screening programme is 'live' or roll-out is agreed and planned for the near future.