Committed to cancer prevention, detection
and treatment
The Government is committed to keeping Australians healthy through the prevention and early detection of cancer.
Continuing Bowel Cancer Screening
The Government is providing $138.7 million over four years to continue the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program. This program aims to reduce death and morbidity from bowel cancer by providing Australians aged 50, 55 and 65 with the opportunity to undergo bowel cancer screening.
Currently, fewer than 40 per cent of bowel cancers are detected early.
Building cancer expertise: supporting cancer patients
The Government will allocate an additional $6 million to assist the National Centre for Gynaecological Cancers by providing resources to health professionals for treatment, commissioning research and clinical trials, and maintaining information resources for consumers.
The Government will also provide an additional $4 million to the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia to deliver support and management aids for men with prostate cancer and their families and carers.
People diagnosed with cancer in 2007
