National Bowel Cancer Screening Program monitoring report: phase 2, July 2008- June 2011
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Topic: Cancer screening
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AIHW
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2012) National Bowel Cancer Screening Program monitoring report: phase 2, July 2008- June 2011, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 30 September 2023.
APA
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2012). National Bowel Cancer Screening Program monitoring report: phase 2, July 2008- June 2011. Canberra: AIHW.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. National Bowel Cancer Screening Program monitoring report: phase 2, July 2008- June 2011. AIHW, 2012.
Vancouver
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. National Bowel Cancer Screening Program monitoring report: phase 2, July 2008- June 2011. Canberra: AIHW; 2012.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2012, National Bowel Cancer Screening Program monitoring report: phase 2, July 2008- June 2011, 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 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:
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38% of the 2.1 million people invited in Phase 2 returned a completed bowel cancer screening kit for analysis
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62,000 participants (7.8%) who returned a valid screening test had a positive screening result
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1 in 33 follow-up colonoscopies diagnosed a confirmed (253) or suspected (868) cancer
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71% of those with a positive screening result were recorded as having had a colonoscopy