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Bowel Cancer Screening Halves Emergency Admissions and Cuts Deaths
November 30, 2007 at 11:11 AM
Cancer News
The figures, published ahead of print in the journal Gut, refer to tests carried out in Coventry and Warwickshire in the Midlands.
This was the only area in England to try out the feasibility of bowel cancer screening for those aged 50 to 69, using postal tests that pick up hidden traces of blood in the stool (faecal occult blood tests).
Blood in the stool is a cardinal sign of cancerous and pre-cancerous changes in the bowel.
One in 20 people in the UK will develop bowel cancer, which is the second leading cause of cancer deaths, claiming more than 16,000 lives every year.
The research team tracked the number of emergency admissions for, and deaths within 30 days from, bowel cancer to the largest hospital trust in the region.
The timeframe spanned from 1999, a year before the pilot began, to 2004, when the programme had been running for five years.
During the entire period, 1236 new cases of bowel cancer were diagnosed, equating to 200 cases a year.
In 1999, just under 30% of bowel cancer patients had to be admitted as an emergency. By 2004, this figure had fallen to just under 16%.
Consequently, the number of emergency operations required halved, and the number of patients dying within 30 days also fell.
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