Call for bowel cancer testing age to be lowered

Screening is currently offered to men and women aged 50 to 74.

Reem Satar

Every 12 minutes someone in the UK is diagnosed with bowel cancer.

Screening is offered to men and women aged 50 to 74 across Scotland.

But an Aberdeen woman says that the age bracket needs to be lowered after she was diagnosed with the disease at 41.

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