Bowelscan tests back on agenda

Melanie Whelan
Updated April 25 2017 - 1:38pm, first published 1:30pm
BRICC's Steve Medwell and Rotary's Gordon Williams launched the kit last year.
BRICC's Steve Medwell and Rotary's Gordon Williams launched the kit last year.

ROTARY Club of Ballarat South is preparing to launch its annual Bowelscan campaign on Monday. Bowel cancer is he second biggest cancer killer in Australia. While 90 per of bowel cancer cases can be treated early, fewer than 40 per cent are actually detected early and the national bowel cancer rate is increasing, according to Bowel Cancer Australia. Rotary subsidises screening kits for the month of May, encouraging anyone aged over 40 to take the test. Screening can help detect pre-cancerous or cancer in its earliest stages.

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Melanie Whelan

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