Bowel cancer screening social videos in 12 languages

Use these short 30 second videos to share in WhatsApp groups or on social media to encourage eligible people in your Greater Manchester neighbourhoods to take up their NHS Bowel Cancer Screening.

• Bowel cancer screening is available to everyone aged 50 to 74.
• The NHS automatically invites people once they become eligible for bowel cancer screening.
• Bowel cancer screening is offered every two years.
• 97 or 98 out of 100 people who use their bowel cancer screening kit do not need further tests.
• 2 or 3 in 100 people are asked to go to hospital for further tests.
• 7 to 10 in every 100 people who have a colonoscopy turn out to have bowel cancer.