Serious Questions
“Without a register function, there will be no national system in place to provide screening histories to laboratories to inform clinical decision-making and no safety net supporting women with positive test results to get the follow-up they need”.
1. Why is this a Commonwealth function ?
2. How many people move interstate once they have had a cancer diagnosis that would be used to justify a commonwealth register >
The Commonwealth also funds the Bowel Cancer screening program. Only 37% of people offered a free test bother to do it. I am one of the 63% over 50s who don't as the test is already included in battery of tests I undergo each year (I have had abnormal liver results (genetic) since age 20 and the quack wants to keep an eye on it - so about a liter** of blood drawn every six months - every 2nd one a PSA and the "off" PSA is the bowel) and the 2016 report summary is a mass of gobblegook.
** may or may not be an exaggeration