Wednesday, 18 March 2009

Bowel (Colorectal) Cancer Screening Programme for New Zealanders - information update

The Ministry of Health has reviewed options for bowel cancer screening for a number of years and screening activity has been increasing internationally in the last decade.

Italy, France, the UK, Australia, Canada and Finland are implementing, or have already implemented, bowel cancer screening programmes.

In May 2008 the Minister of Health announced that a New Zealand bowel cancer screening programme would be established. The programme is currently in the early stages of development

Updated information on New Zealand’s bowel cancer screening programme is outlined here.