Guidance

Bowel cancer screening: pathology guidance on reporting lesions

This document sets out the NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme's (BCSP) pathology guidelines for reporting lesions.

• From: NHS England
• Published: 1 September 2007
• Last updated: 4 October 2024
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  1. 4 October 2024

     Added clarification that publication was previously published by Public Health England.

  2. 31 May 2021

     Updated entire document and removed the section on villousness.

  3. 26 March 2018

     There have been substantial changes to this updated guidance.

  4. 1 September 2007

     First published.

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Bowel cancer screening: pathology guidance on reporting lesions

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This publication was previously published by Public Health England, which closed on 30 September 2021.

This publication explains how to report lesions as part of bowel cancer screening.

It sets out practical guidelines, and includes information about:

• dissection of submitted lesions
• key diagnostic features
• adenocarcinoma