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Health
John Elder

Wipeout: At-home bowel cancer screening rates plummeted during COVID

Most Australians have always had an aversion to taking a simple and free at-home test that might save their lives.

Indeed, since the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program (NBCSP) began in August 2006, screening participation rates have not surpassed 44 per cent.

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