NRL legends team up with the CancerCouncilOz to Get2it and screen for bowel cancer!
New data from YouGov shows that people aged 50 and over, spend around 35 minutes a day in the bathroom, totalling 212 hours a year. Cancer Council suggests that this is more than enough time for eligible Australians do the test and potentially save their lives. Screening rates for Australia’s second biggest cancer killer currently sit at just 43.5%.
Cancer Council CEO, Professor Tanya Buchanan, said: “In the 424 hours, or 18 days, each Australian spends in the bathroom every two years, thousands of potentially life-saving samples could be taken. Countless lives can be saved if eligible Australians, especially those in their 50s swapped out time spent scrolling on their phones while on the loo, with bowel screening time.”
Minister for Health and Aged Care, The Hon Mark Butler MP, said:"We are asking Australians aged 50 and over to make time to look after their health by doing their free bowel test when it arrives in the mail. If we can get 60% of eligible Australians screening and keep it that way, we can save 84,000 lives by 2040.
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