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Cost of bowel cancer screening estimated at £40 million
30-Apr-08
The bowel cancer screening programme in England could cost over £40 million.
UK researchers have calculated that for a hypothetical population of 500,000 people, 66,956 of who would be aged 60-74 and eligible for screening, an estimated 34 cancers would be detected at a cost of £394,157.
Extrapolating this to the whole of England, with an estimated population of 50,762,900, the cost would be £40,017,104.
Cost is likely to rise as more become eligible for colonoscopy, say the researchers from the UK's Public Health Resources Unit.
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Graham Brown
30/04/2008
Now we just need someone to finish the research and find out how much this early intervention would ultimately save the NHS.Then we would have a substantive article rather than yet another headline grabbing sound bite.
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