Australia's National Bowel Cancer Screening Program: does it work for Indigenous Australians?

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Australia's National Bowel Cancer Screening Program: does it work for Indigenous Australians?

Background. Despite a lower incidence of bowel cancer overall, Indigenous Australians are more likely to be diagnosed at an advanced stage when prognosis is poor. Bowel cancer screening is an effective means of reducing incidence and mortality from bowel cancer through early identification and promp...

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Main Authors:	Christou, Aliki, Katzenellenbogen, Judith, Thompson, Sandra
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Biomed Central 2010
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/10140

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