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Colorectal cancer screening reduces incidence, mortality and morbidity
Author(s) -
Jideh Bilel,
Bourke Michael J
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/mja18.00279
Subject(s) - citation , incidence (geometry) , medicine , cancer incidence , medical journal , library science , cancer , colorectal cancer , history , family medicine , computer science , physics , optics
Westmead Hospital, Sydney, NSW olorectal cancer (CRC) is the second most commonly diagCnosed cancer in Australia in both men and women; there were about 17 000 new cases and more than 4000 deaths during 2017. It imposes a tremendous burden of disease, dominated by mortality rather than disability; in the 2011 Australian Burden of Disease Study, almost 86 000 years of life were lost because of CRC. The disorder is also a substantial economic burden; it costs more than $100 000 to treat one case of advanced CRC.