Screening for bowel cancer 'saves lives' say doctors - Daily Mail 28th November 2007

Screening for bowel cancer halves emergency hospital admissions for the disease and cuts deaths, say doctors. Findings from a pilot scheme confirm the benefits of mass screening, in which test kits are sent through the post. Researchers from the Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust tracked bowel cancer cases in the region from 1999, a year before screening for those aged 50 to 69 began, to 2004.

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