A life lost every four days: Western NSW residents succumbing to bowel cancer

By Kim Bartley
Updated May 24 2017 - 12:58pm, first published 12:11pm
KILLER: Western NSW Local Health District and the Cancer Institute NSW report that by the end of  2021 another 1280 people in the region will be diagnosed with bowel cancer and 420 will die. Photo: FILE PHOTO
KILLER: Western NSW Local Health District and the Cancer Institute NSW report that by the end of 2021 another 1280 people in the region will be diagnosed with bowel cancer and 420 will die. Photo: FILE PHOTO

Health authorities are promoting a “very simple test” as bowel cancer kills on average one Western NSW resident every four days.

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