Fifteen years of bowel cancer screening policy in Australia: putting evidence into practice?

Hingston, Guy R

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2010.tb04084.x

Topics

Environment and public health

Neoplasms

Digestive system diseases

Men's health

To the Editor: Flitcroft and colleagues’ historical report of bowel cancer screening in Australia is helpful to those new to this internationally accepted life-saving practice.1

Rural Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Port Macquarie, NSW.

Correspondence: g.hingston@unsw.edu.au

1. Flitcroft KL, Salkeld GP, Gillespie JA, et al. Fifteen years of bowel cancer screening policy in Australia: putting evidence into practice? Med J Aust 2010; 193: 37-42. <MJA full text>
2. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Cancer — Australian cancer statistics update, May 2010. http://www.aihw.gov.au/cancer/index.cfm (accessed Oct 2010).
3. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Australian Cancer Incidence and Mortality books. Lung, bronchus and trachea for Australia. Canberra: ACIM, 2010. http://www.aihw.gov.au/cancer/data/acim_books/lung.xls (accessed Oct 2010).
4. Atkin WS, Edwards R, Kralj-Hans I, et al. Once-only flexible sigmoidoscopy screening in prevention of colorectal cancer: a multicentre randomised controlled trial. Lancet 2010; 375: 1624-1633.
5. National Health and Medical Research Council. Clinical practice guidelines for the prevention, early detection and management of colorectal cancer. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 2005.
6. Mandel JS, Bond JH, Church TR, et al. Reducing mortality from colorectal cancer by screening for fecal occult blood. N Engl J Med 1993; 328: 1365-1371.

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