Huge win for late campaigner Dame Deborah James as NHS slashes bowel cancer screening age from 60 to 50

THE NHS is lowering the bowel cancer screening age from 60 to 50 in a massive win for campaigner Dame Deborah James.

The £16million Bowelbabe fundraiser, and The Sun, led calls for the change before her death aged 40 in 2022.

The NHS is lowering the bowel cancer screening age from 60 to 50 in a massive win for campaigner Dame Deborah James Graham PrenticeDebs receiving her Damehood from Prince William[/caption]

Her family are now urging four million newly eligible people to make the most of the opportunity.