Costs for advanced bowel cancer will not be sustainable as our population ages – we must invest now in detecting more early-stage cancers
- Australians are dying unnecessarily – right now
- Health system costs to treat advanced bowel cancer: $66,000; to detect and remove precancerous polyps: less than $2000
- Faecal occult blood testing: the low-cost, publicly acceptable way to screen Australia for our No.2 cancer killer
- New evidence demonstrates unrealised benefits of limited NBCSP
- Screening investment stagnates, Medicare and PBS costs escalate
- Australian Government a leader in cancer control – so why the delays in the most urgently needed national program?
- FOBTs should be in the Men’s Sheds – 2,200 Australian men die of bowel cancer annually
- Delayed screening investment passes on bowel cancer costs to states
- NBCSP should be part of Government’s $470 million e-health initiative
- Only $15 million to add 60 and 70-year-olds to the NBCSP from 2012-13: the best cancer control investment available to the Australian Government – extraordinary good value as a public health investment.