Australia Advises 475,000 Bowel Cancer Retests After Kits Questioned
This article was originally published in PharmAsia News
Executive Summary
Australia's Health Department has advised nearly half a million patients to undergo new tests for bowel cancer after kits they used came under question. The department said the tests in question, supplied by Dorevitch Pathology, returned a possibly excessive amount of negative results. Suspicions were raised about the test when the level of positive results, more than 100,000 since last December, was lower than expected. The government plans to notify the 475,000 people who have used the self-test bowel kits since Dec. 1, 2008, advising them to be retested. (Click here for more