Bowel Cancer - Should I Use Home Testing Kits For Bowel Cancer?

Although the UK now has a National Screening Programme for Bowel Cancer, is there any place for self diagnosis and home testing kits for bowel cancer? Although bowel cancer will affect one in 20 people in the UK and is the third most common cancer, early detection does improve outcome from this cancer. The home diagnosis test kits are sensitive and effective and therefore may have a role.