Reducing the impact of colorectal cancer
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common cancers in Australia, with a risk in people under the age of 75 years of one in 18 for men and one in 26 for women. Each year, about 15 000 Australians are diagnosed with CRC, and about 4000 die from it.1 the 5-year survival from CRC is 62%, which is considerably worse than, for example, breast cancer, which has a 5-year survival of 88%.2
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We thank the study coordinators, interviewers and data managers, the many clinicians and scientists, the national and international collaborators, and especially the participants for making the ACCFR and the CCFR a success. Special thanks and honour to the late Professor Jeremy Jass, visionary pathologist and original principal investigator (PI) of the ACCFR, and to Mark Jenkins and John Hopper who have also been PIs of the ACCFR.
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