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  •   Home > News > Health & Safety

    Physicians are coming down hard on the Government's evidence being used to prop up their changes to bowel cancer funding

    Physicians are coming down hard on the Government's evidence being used to prop up their changes to bowel cancer funding


    Last week the Government announced it will scrap a programme lowering the screening age for Maori and Pacific people, decreasing the age to 58 for everyone instead.

    Royal Australasian College of Physicians's Dr Matt Wheeler says a claim that bowel cancer risk is similar across all groups at the same age, isn't true.

    Wheeler says the peak age of diagnosis is earlier in Maori than non-Maori, which is why the original programme had their screening age at 50.

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