Understand more about bowel cancer, including how common it is, risk factors, symptoms and having bowel cancer run in your family.

It is crucial that bowel cancer is detected early. Read our latest information on symptoms, screening and how to reduce the risk of bowel cancer

Prevention, detection tests, symptoms and treatment for bowel cancer.

Regular bowel cancer screening using an FOBT kit can pick up pre-cancerous polyps. Find out more about tests to help diagnose bowel cancer.

Bowel cancers start in the bowel or intestines

Once you turn 50 years of age, you are eligible for a free bowel screening test in the prevention of bowel cancer. The bowel cancer screening program describes what the test involves and at what future ages you are eligible for testing.

Bowel cancer is highly curable if found at an early stage.

The National Bowel Cancer Screening Program (NBCSP) offers kits for free to Australians between the ages of 50 and 74 years of age.

Australia has one of the highest incidence of bowel cancer in the world—find out why screening is important and how you can take part in the bowel screening program.

Bowel cancer is usually a slow-growing cancer. There are often no symptoms in the early stages of the disease.