What screening is available if you want to go privately?

If you wish to arrange screening privately, the following are some options: 

1.    High-quality CT Colonography is a less invasive alternative to Colonoscopy with the same accuracy, a milder laxative and the ability to look at the other organs in the abdomen and pelvis outside the colon, including the appendix. 

• Dr David Burling  https://www.londonradiology.co.uk or please contact Amy via [email protected] or Tel: 0207 079 2107

2.   Colonoscopy - where a thin tube with a camera inside is passed into your bottom to look for signs of bowel cancer.  

Further details about private colonoscopy can be found at: https://www.thelondonclinic.co.uk/treatments/colonoscopy

• Dr Siwan Thomas-Gibson  http://www.thelondonclinic.co.uk/consultants/dr-siwan-thomas-gibson

3.   FIT (Faecal Immunochemical Test) home stool testing services:

• Purchase an enhanced FIT testing service from boweltesting.com You will complete an online survey after which a test kit will be sent to you in the post. Once you have collected the sample you will send it by post to its laboratory. Within a week you will be notified of the results and, if positive, a St. Mark’s consultant will advise you on what to do next. If your test is positive, you will be referred for a further bowel test - either a CTC or colonoscopy

• Alternatively a QFIT test is available from The Doctors Laboratory www.tdlpathology.com