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Making sense of differing bowel cancer screening guidelines

Terry D Bolin, Melvyn G Korman and Alistair E Cowen
MJA 2009; 191 (4): 239-240

To the Editor: The recent withdrawal of faulty faecal occult blood testing (FOBT) kits by the government highlights the flaws in the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program (NBCSP), with 475 000 kits needing to be replaced. In their recent editorial,1 Ee and Olynyk attempted to persuade us that the NBCSP, which has now temporarily suspended the issuing of new invitations to participate, is both rational and appropriate for an affluent country such as Australia.

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