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JUNE IS BOWEL CANCER AWARENESS MONTH

Bowel cancer is Australia's second deadliest cancer. Bowel cancer claims the lives of 103 Australians every week (5,375 people a year) - but it's one of the most treatable types of cancer if found early.

While the risk of bowel cancer increases significantly with age, the disease doesn't discriminate, affecting men and women, young and old.

The Australian Government introduced the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program (NBCSP) to reduce the number of deaths from bowel cancer in Australia.

Eligible people aged 50-74 will receive a tax-payer funded faecal immunochemical test (FIT) in the mail and are asked to take two separate poo samples before sending the completed test back to the laboratory for analysis.

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