Abnormal Result Bowel Screening. The National Bowel Screening Program using FOBT is offered free to all Australians aged 50-74 every two years. This is a free test to check for polyps or cancers.
Only about 1 in 10 people with an abnormal result about 10 have cancer. The National Bowel Screening Program using FOBT is offered free to all Australians aged 50-74 every two years. More than a third of people with abnormal results drop out of bowel cancer screening potentially putting their health at risk researchers have warned.
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The National Bowel Screening Program using FOBT is offered free to all Australians aged 50-74 every two years. Bowel cancer screening checks if you could have bowel cancer. An abnormal result happens in around 2 in every 100 tested and means that blood has been found in 5 or 6 of the samples - this is not a diagnosis of cancer but it means people are asked to repeat the test and then if necessary offered further investigation such as a colonoscopy NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme January 2016. Polyps are growths in the bowel.