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National Bowel Cancer Screening Program: monitoring report 2013–14
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2015) National Bowel Cancer Screening Program: monitoring report 2013–14, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 24 April 2024.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2015). National Bowel Cancer Screening Program: monitoring report 2013–14. Canberra: AIHW.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. National Bowel Cancer Screening Program: monitoring report 2013–14. AIHW, 2015.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. National Bowel Cancer Screening Program: monitoring report 2013–14. Canberra: AIHW; 2015.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2015, National Bowel Cancer Screening Program: monitoring report 2013–14, AIHW, Canberra.
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This report presents statistics on the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program for Australians invited to take part between July 2013 and June 2014. Thirty six per cent (about 510,000) of those who were invited went on to participate in screening, of whom 7.5% (37,700) were found to require further assessment. One out of every 11 assessments detected an advanced adenoma (pre-cancerous lesion), and a bowel cancer was detected in 1 out of every 25 assessments.
Of the 1.4 million people invited in 2013–14, 36% returned a completed screening kit for analysis
The re-participation rate was over 70%
Of those participants who returned a valid screening test, about 37,700 (7.5%) had a positive screening result
Sixty-eight per cent of those with a positive screening result were recorded as having had a follow-up colonoscopy
National Bowel Cancer Screening Program: monitoring report 2013–14