If you throw away your BowelScreen invite, you’re binning your chance of getting lucky like I did

“I got back a letter, and I’ll never forget the phrase: They had found traces of blood imperceptible to the eye.”

The letter to which Jim Ahern, 66, is referring had come from BowelScreen, the free national bowel screening programme.

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