THE two major political parties are being urged to back the fast-tracking of a national bowel cancer screening program so people are tested every two years instead of five.
Just under $50 million was devoted to expanding the bowel cancer program in last year's federal budget, with the aim of extending free screening to 70-year-olds from 2015.
Two-year screenings would begin replacing the current five-year system from 2017-18, when 72-year-olds will be included.
Currently just four age groups are eligible for the free screenings - 50, 55, 60, and 65.
But Bowel Cancer Australia said the upcoming federal election was an opportunity to "reset" the program, to bring forward some of the planned changes.
The health group wants biannual screenings to be implemented in 2014, and older age groups to be included much earlier in the scheme.
"England's biennial bowel cancer screening program launched in 2006 and by 2012 was rolled out to people aged 60 to 69," Bowel Cancer Australia chief Julien Wiggins said in a statement.
"By 2014, screening will be open to people aged 60 to 74, while our program will be open to only four ages.
"In the meantime we have almost 4,000 men and women dying every year from this preventable disease."
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