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Five-minute screen at sixty can cut bowel cancer deaths
On 28 April 2010 the Lancet published online the remarkable results of a 16 year controlled trial led by Imperial College, London and carried out in 14 UK centres. A one-off ‘Flexi-Scope’ examination of the inside of the lower bowel in people between the ages of 55 and 64 picked up pre-cancerous polyps on the bowel wall. These were removed before they could develop into cancer. Screening was carried out on 57,099 participants, with 112,939 unscreened people as a control group. After follow up for an average of eleven years, the incidence of bowel cancer was one-third lower in those screened than in the controls, and mortality was more than 40% lower. The results of this study are so significant that Cancer Research UK is calling on the government to introduce Flexi-Scope screening alongside the current nation-wide bowel cancer screening programme that tests for traces of occult blood in faeces.
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Safer lithium treatment
The Safety Agency has now published guidance for doctors, laboratory staff and pharmacists about ways to improve the safety of lithium treatment. It has also produced for patients an information booklet, a lithium alert card and a record book for tracking blood tests.
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