National Bowel Cancer Screening Program monitoring report: phase 2, July 2008- June 2011

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Release Date: 02 Mar 2012
Author: AIHW
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This report presents statistics on the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program for Australians invited to take part between July 2008 and June 2011. Just over 800,000 people were screened in that time, with about 60,000 found to require further assessment. One out of every 11 colonoscopies performed for further assessment detected and removed an advanced adenoma (pre-cancerous lesion), and a cancer was detected in 1 out of every 33 colonoscopies. However, this represents only a partial picture of outcomes due to incomplete reporting.

ISBN: 978-1-74249-280-3
Cat. no: CAN 61
Pages: 120

Findings from this report:

38% of the 2.1 million people invited in Phase 2 returned a completed bowel cancer screening kit for analysis
62,000 participants (7.8%) who returned a valid screening test had a positive screening result
Women were more likely to screen than men
71% of those with a positive screening result were recorded as having had a colonoscopy

Preliminary material
- Title and verso page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Symbols
- Summary
Body section
- Phase 2 data at a glance
- Section 1 Introductory material
  - Structure of this report
  - Overview of bowel cancer and bowel screening
  - Terminology and concepts used in this report
  - Data considerations
- Section 2 Performance measures
  - 1 Participation
  - 2 Faecal occult blood test outcomes
  - 3 Follow-up of positive FOBT results
  - 4 Bowel abnormality detection
  - 5 Adverse events
  - 6 Program suspension, remediation and resumption
  - 7 Incidence of bowel cancer
  - 8 Mortality from bowel cancer
End matter
- Appendixes
  - Appendix A Overall NBCSP outcomes for Phase 1 and 2 (August 2006–June 2011)
  - Appendix B NBCSP information
  - Appendix C Data sources and classifications
  - Appendix D Statistical methods
- Glossary
- References
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Related publications

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