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National Bowel Cancer Screening Program: monitoring report 2018
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2018) National Bowel Cancer Screening Program: monitoring report 2018, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 18 April 2024.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2018). National Bowel Cancer Screening Program: monitoring report 2018. Canberra: AIHW.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. National Bowel Cancer Screening Program: monitoring report 2018. AIHW, 2018.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. National Bowel Cancer Screening Program: monitoring report 2018. Canberra: AIHW; 2018.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2018, National Bowel Cancer Screening Program: monitoring report 2018, AIHW, Canberra.
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This report presents statistics on the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program using key performance indicators. Of those who were invited to participate in the program between 1 January 2015 and 31 December 2016, 41% were screened. Of those, 8% had a positive result warranting further assessment, and 1 in 26 participants who had a follow-up diagnostic assessment was diagnosed with a confirmed or suspected cancer.
Of the 3.2 million people invited between January 2015 and December 2016, 41% participated in the NBCSP
Since the program began in August 2006, about 4.4 million NBCSP screening tests have been completed
The median time from positive screening test result to diagnostic assessment was 54 days
National Bowel Cancer Screening Program: monitoring report 2018