"Earlier screening for bowel cancer could save 150 lives a year" - DutchNews.nl

Health charity Maag Lever Darm Stichting (MLDS) has called on the cabinet to reduce the age for bowel cancer screening from 55 to 50, saying it could save 150 lives a year. Spain, France and Britain are already following the World Health Organisation’s guideline to start bowel cancer screening from age 50 but the Netherlands lagged behind because of the cost and a lack of capacity to carry out colonoscopies, Mariël Croo, director of the MLDS, told broadcaster NOS. However,...