Bowel cancer screening delays all about dollars but make no sense
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2012
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Olver, I.
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In more than 30 years of treating cancer patients, I have seen some health policy decisions that defy common sense. But the most senseless of all is TreasuryĆ¢s continued refusal to expand the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program (NBCSP). There are thousands of Australians walking around right now, in apparent good health, with early-stage bowel cancer or precancerous polyps that will not be detected until symptoms appear. By then, it might be too late to save their lives. The good news is there is an Australian screening program which could prevent up to 30 deaths each week from premature bowel cancer.
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Copyright 2012 the author. This publication is available under a Creative Commons Attribution NoDerrivatives licence. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/)