Only 13.9% of Australians with a positive bowel cancer screening result get a colonoscopy within the recommended 30 days. Most wait a lot longer than that. The reason isn't neglect. It's capacity.
Roughly one in five patients referred for bowel investigation never make it to colonoscopy. Some withdraw. Some are still waiting months later. Either way, the referral protocol has cracks, and patients are falling through them.
"Oh, and I've noticed a bit of blood, but it's probably just haemorrhoids." You mention it almost as an afterthought. Your GP nods, agrees it's probably nothing, and…
Australia performs over 900,000 colonoscopies a year. Fewer than 4% of those done because of symptoms end in a bowel cancer diagnosis. That gap matters. It means a…
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