Testing times are leading to positive outcomes: 'The test takes a few minutes, it’s simple to do'

The home screening test for bowel cancer in the BowelScreen programme is available to people aged between 58 and 70, and although four in 100 may be called for a colonoscopy, only 5% of those will have cancer.

Mike Brady had previously done three BowelScreen tests without issue, his fourth test found cancer. Picture: iStock

Only a month before Midleton man Mike Brady was diagnosed with sigmoid rectal cancer, the 67-year-old was in New York for a week.

“We walked everywhere. I had no symptoms at all,” says the dad of two grown-up daughters, who is married to Dorothy.