In her first stint on the programme, she survived advanced bowel cancer, later setting up Lynn’s Bowel Cancer Campaign.
Wood was best known for her work on BBC’s Watchdog, which she first hosted alongside husband John Stapleton between 1985 and 1993.
Scottish presenter Lynn Faulds Wood has died, aged 72.
Wood helped to create the world’s first evidence-based guide to symptoms of bowel cancer, and the guide was officially adopted by the Department of Health in Britain in 2000.