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.

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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
Published 1 September 2007
Last updated 31 May 2021 + show all updates
  1. Updated entire document and removed the section on villousness.

  2. There have been substantial changes to this updated guidance.

  3. First published.