Not enough of us are getting our poo checked for bowel cancer

Embargoed until: Publicly released: 2023-07-21 10:43

Australia; QLD

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Close to half of the Aussies who are eligible for bowel cancer screening are not sending in their poo for analysis, say Aussie researchers. They found that, while numbers did increase from 2015-2016 to 2019-2020 - 40.9% and 43.8% respectively -, the rates are still very low. Moreover, the researchers found that participation rates across remote or disadvantaged areas were even lower still.

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conference: PLOS ONE

Research:Paper

Organisation/s: Queensland University of Technology (QUT), The University of Queensland, Griffith University

Funder: Some of this work was funded by an ARC Linkage Project (LP200100468). Mengersen K, Aitken J, Cramb S, Baade P, Spratt B, Thompson H. Statistical methods for quantifying variation in spatiotemporal areal data. ARC Linkage Project (LP200100468). 2021-2023. $588,955 Susanna Cramb receives salary and research support from an NHMRC Investigator Grant (#2008313).

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