The test kits are being offered to 50-year-olds for the first time, but uptake is less than 60%.
People are being urged not to be "squeamish" and to make use of a home-testing kit for bowel cancer when it arrives in the post.
"It's really exciting that this test is being made available, that it's coming into Gloucestershire. It's not a scary kit at all, the lab just needs a little sample of your poo," said the clinical cancer lead for Gloucestershire, Dr Sadaf Haque."I would urge you to send it off; don't be squeamish about it," she told BBC Gloucestershire.
In the UK, about 43,000 people are diagnosed with bowel cancer each year, of whom about 16,800 will die.Dr Haque is eager to point out that collecting the sample is very easy. More than 850,000 extra people in England will be receiving the home-testing kit following the lowering of the age criteria. "I initially had symptoms of bleeding, which I thought was piles because it was now and then from constipation, but as time went on, the symptoms progressed and I went to get help because I thought that something wasn't quite right.
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