Bowel cancer cases halve after screening
FollowThe incidence of bowel cancer is dramatically lower after screening, a new report has found.
Research involving 200,000 people found that people who had had bowel cancer screening had a 44 per cent lower risk of developing the disease in the four years following screening.
“This is great news for the community – those who take part in screening and don’t have colorectal cancer have a substantially lower risk of developing the disease over the subsequent years,