‘About the same as a mammogram’: GPs get good hit rate with bowel cancer diagnoses

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‘About the same as a mammogram’: GPs get good hit rate with bowel cancer diagnoses

Ross Lawrenson, Waikato
Waikato University professor Ross Lawrenson hopes research will lead to better use of colorectal cancer referral and treatment pathways
The GP’s judgement of high sus­picion of bowel cancer in a pa­tient is valid for the presence of disease, early data from a $1.195 million study sugge