Screened patients have ‘superior’ bowel cancer outcomes
Resection is less invasive and there are fewer complications, according to data collected by hundreds of surgeons
Australians with colorectal cancer detected under the national FOBT screening program are more likely to have less-invasive surgery and fewer complications than others, a study shows.
Victorian researchers analysed data on more than 15,000 surgeries for colorectal cancer (CRC) collected by 435 surgeons in the Binational Colorectal Cancer Audit.
