Health officials under pressure for earlier bowel cancer screening for Māori

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Health officials under pressure for earlier bowel cancer screening for Māori

RNZ

RNZ

Older Māori women
Screening programmes are less successful in engaging with Māori and Māori have lower life expectancy than non-Māori.
Bowel cancer is diagnosed in about 3000 New Zealanders a year, and kills about 1200. It's the second most common cancer registered for all women (M