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 These Clubs issue approximately 150,000 kits during their annual Colorectal Screening programs each March. Since Bowelscan commenced, it is estimated that more than 1,000 people with bowel cancer and 5,000 with polyps have been detected.

Cancer of the bowel is the most common internal cancer to affect men and women in western society. Over 9,000 Australians will be diagnosed as having bowel cancer this year and over 4,500 will die of the disease.

Do You Know

       In Australia there is a death,              

       Every 5 hours from a road accident

       Every 4 hours  from breast cancer
       Every 2 hours  from bowel cancer

The Commonwealth Government has announced that they will send kits to 50, 55 and 65 year olds in 2010.

But we know , and research has proven, that all people over 40 need to be tested regularly, so that Bowel Cancer which is curable, if got early, is eradicated.

In our 2009 programme there were 115 people who tested positive — 58% males and 41% females.

A test kit is sold  through participating pharmacies and returned for pathology testing. In Tasmania kits are on sale in March and must be returned for testing by the 14th April.  In 2010 they will cost $10, which includes a processing fee..

Bowelscan is a test for invisible blood in the stool, which if present, may indicate a bowel cancer. There may be a cancer present which is not bleeding and which will not show up in one test.

Australian Rotary Health supports the Bowelscan Project ..