Jeremy Bowen's anger at cancer test delay that 'could've prevented disease'

called for screening to start at 50 not 60 - and last summer the health secretary Matt Hancock agreed.

NHS England have now said they hope to introduce FIT by the summer. But until that happens, screening at 50 will be delayed, bosses confirmed.told The Sun Online he believes had he lived in Scotland, his bowel cancer may have been detected earlier. There is absolutely no time to waste. More families will lose loved ones to bowel cancer due to these delays if the Government doesn’t take action nowShe said: "The longer it takes to implement the new more sensitive screening, and screening for everyone from the age of 50, the more lives we will lose to bowel cancer.

Jeremy told Sun Online: "The screening age in Scotland is 50, yet in England and Wales - where I'm originally from - it's 60.If I had been lowered I would have already had the test and I'm sure it could have been preventedHe added: "I think it's really important to get this testing implemented because preventative care is a lot cheaper for the NHS in the long-run.

"They said it was to do with an adhesion on my bowel from an operation I'd had in 2015, which had left a scar.Cancer diagnosis Jeremy says that he was fortunate that because of where the tumour was and the amount that needed to be removed, he didn't need a stoma bag.

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