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Australia's NHMRC has endorsed new guidelines to lower the starting age for the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program from 50 to 45 years. The program involves sending self-testing kits to eligible Australians every 2 years.
Australia’s National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)—the Federal Government’s medical research funding agency—has endorsed new guidelines from the Cancer Council of Australia to lower the starting age for the country’s National Bowel Cancer Screening Program (NBCSP) from 50 years to 45 years. Currently, the screening programme begins at age 50 years, with eligible Australians having a faecal occult testing kit posted to them once every 2 years for home testing, which they then post back to laboratories for analysis.