National Bowel Cancer Screening Program: monitoring report 2013–14

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Release Date: 22 Jun 2015

Topic: Cancer screening

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AIHW (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare) (2015) National Bowel Cancer Screening Program: monitoring report 2013–14, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 24 June 2026.

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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.

ISSN: 1039-3307
ISBN: 978-1-74249-751-8
Cat. no: CAN 92
Pages: 150

Findings from this report:

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

Preliminary pages
- Title & verso title
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Symbols
- Summary
- 2013–14 NBCSP data at a glance
Body content
- Section 1 Introduction
  - Structure of this report
  - Overview of bowel cancer and bowel screening
  - Terminology and concepts used in this report
  - Data considerations
  - Section 2 Performance measures
- Structure of this section
  - 1 Participation
  - 2 Faecal occult blood test outcomes
  - 3 Follow-up of positive FOBT results
  - 4 Bowel abnormality detection
  - 5 Adverse events
  - 6 Incidence of bowel cancer
  - 7 Mortality from bowel cancer
  - 8 Expenditure on the NBCSP
End matter
- Appendix A: Supporting data
- Appendix B: National Bowel Cancer Screening Program (NBCSP) information
- Appendix C: Data sources and classifications
- Appendix D: Statistical methods
- Glossary
- References
- List of tables
- List of figures
- List of boxes
- Related publications
- Supplementary online data tables

National Bowel Cancer Screening Program: monitoring report 2013–14

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