BreastScreen Australia aims to reduce mortality and morbidity from breast cancer by actively recruiting and screening women aged 50-69 years for early detection of the disease.
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The National Cervical Screening Program aims to reduce incidence and death from cervical cancer, in a cost-effective manner, through a more organised approach to cervical screening.
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The National Bowel Cancer Screening Program aims to reduce the incidence and death from bowel cancer by offering people turning 50, 55 or 65 years of age between January 2008 and December 2010 screening with a faecal occult blood test in the privacy of their own home.
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The Federal Department of Health and Ageing will write to 475,000 people who have received self-test bowel cancer kits due to uncertainty about the accuracy of negative results.
People who received a free self-testing bowel cancer screening kit issued between 1 December 2008 and 8 May 2009 will be asked to do the test again.
Progressive decline in the rate of positivity results has led to uncertainty about the accuracy of negative results. Positive results are accurate and anyone with a positive result should, if they have not already done so, see their doctor to arrange further investigation, usually a colonoscopy.
The kits were provided as part of the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program to screen all 50, 55 and 65-year-olds.
For more information read the Screening Retest Fact Sheet or call the FOBT Helpline on 1300 738 365.
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