Screened patients have ‘superior’ bowel cancer outcomes
Resection is less invasive and there are fewer complications, according to data collected by hundreds of surgeons
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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.