Bowel cancer screening set to save thousands of lives
Bowel cancer screening is predicted to save over two and a half thousand lives every year in the UK by 2025, according to new research published in the Journal of Medical Screening*.
The Cancer Research UK funded study, which looked at the impact home testing kits could have on mortality rates, showed that deaths from bowel cancer are set to drop by around 16 per cent.
By 2025, the numbers of lives that are expected to be saved in the UK each year is between 2200 and 2700.
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