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Rugby cancer screening leads the way
Thursday, December 3rd 2009 00:00
A pilot scheme at the Hospital of St Cross in Rugby is being rolled out across the West Midlands and the North-West.
A bowel cancer screening programme's going national after a successful trial at a Rugby hospital.
The detection unit's discovered thousands of patients in the early stages of bowel cancer at St Cross Hospital.
It'll now be rolled out across the rest of the Midlands and the North West.
Since July 2006 it has:
· sent out 1.5 million test kits
· screened 810,000 members of the public
· referred 16,062 people for colonoscopy
· detected 1673 people with cancer in the Midlands & North West, out of 3968 cancers found nationally
· found more early stage cancers
· helped to reduce mortality rates from bowel cancer
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