Cancer screening and diagnostic imaging videos

Cancer screening and diagnostics videos in multiple languages and British Sign Language

A new set of educational videos has been created to support Primary Care and help patients understand the importance of cancer screening and how diagnostics supports patients.

To make this information accessible to more people across the Thames Valley the videos are available in: British Sign Language (BSL), Hindi, Polish, Gujarati, Nepali, Punjabi and English.

View the full set of videos here: YouTube channel

The videos explain:

  • How to use the symptomatic faecal immunochemical test (FIT)
  • Cervical screening
  • Breast screening
  • Bowel screening

CT scan and endoscopy (gastroscopy) videos

Thames Valley Cancer Alliance, working with Cancer Research UK, has produced new short videos explaining what happens during a CT scan and an endoscopy (gastroscopy). These are available in Polish, Urdu and English to help more people understand what to expect when they do for these tests. View the videos below:

CT scan: Polish

CT scan: Urdu

CT scan: English

Endoscopy animation: Polish

Endoscopy animation: Urdu

Endoscopy animation: English