Breast screening“Breast screening helps to find cancer an early stage, which is when treatment is more likely to be successful,” explains Orritt. “It involves a mammogram of your breast or chest that looks for breast cancer, essentially when it’s too small to see or feel. “People within these age ranges will automatically receive a FIT kit in the post every two years.”You can also get screening for bowel cancer every two years if you’re aged 75 or over, but you need to call the bowel cancer screening helpline on 0800 707 6060 and ask for the test, according to the NHS website. “The aim of bowel screening is to help find cancer at an early stage and to also find any changes in the bowel that could lead to cancer,” says Orritt. “Similar to some of the other screening programmes, it helps find lung cancer at an early stage, when treatment is more likely to be successful.”The targeted lung cancer screening programme is still new, so it’s likely that it will take some time before this is available for everyone, according to Cancer Research UK’s website.