LETTERS inviting people to participate in a bowel cancer screening pilot were sent out yesterday morning.

SPENDING £50,000 on bowel cancer screening will not have an impact on other front-line health services.

FIRST things first, news that bowel cancer screening is to start within a year is to be welcomed.

HOLDING the States to ransom by starting bowel cancer screening without securing long-term funding is making a mockery of political procedures, says Deputy Matt Fallaize.

BOWEL cancer screening will go ahead after all.

MANY islanders are rightly angered that the States of Guernsey put museum storage above human lives when they rejected proposals for spending a comparatively small amount of money on a bowel cancer screening programme.

ISLANDERS reacted angrily yesterday to the States’ decision to support museum storage improvements instead of a bowel cancer screening programme.

STATES members yesterday voted by just two votes against a screening programme which would have saved island lives by giving an earlier diagnosis of bowel cancer.

KEY moves to help the island’s battle with bowel cancer have delighted campaigners.

MAJOR steps towards preventing dozens of deaths from cancer every year have been taken, the Guernsey Press can reveal exclusively today.