Medical News Summary: Early bowel cancer diagnosis significantly improves chances of survival

About: Early bowel cancer diagnosis significantly improves chances of survival
Date: 27 October 2004
Source: Scotsman
Author: David Stringer
Medical News Summary (summary of medical news story as reported by Scotsman): Bowel cancer causes 16,000 deaths in the UK. Early detection can save 80% of patients but 50% are not diagnosed until the later stages making their prognosis much poorer. A man with rectal bleeding was initially misdiagnosed by two doctors as having piles. A third doctor finally diagnosed bowel cancer by which time it had spread significantly. The government is trying to devise a plan to make screening more available to a wider part of the community. Because of the nature of the testing though, compliance could be poor.
URL: http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3681000
Related Disease Topics: Bowel cancer, Piles
Related Symptom Topics: Rectal bleeding

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• Cancer
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• Undiagnosed and bowel cancer
• Undiagnosed and bowel cancer
• Misdiagnosis (type of Medical misadventure)
• misdiagnosis of bowel cancer
• misdiagnosis of rectal bleeding

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