Screening programme could worsen bowel cancer mortality for elderly men – editorial

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Screening programme could worsen bowel cancer mortality for elderly men – editorial

Martin
Johnston
Phil Bagshaw
An editorial co-written by Christchurch surgeon Phil Bagshaw asks the medical profession to call for proper funding of the National Bowel Screening Programme
“… some DHBs have traded off colonoscopy availability for the investigation of symptomatic cases with the colonoscopy needs of population screening”