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Tue 04 Apr 2010Pre-cancer stage is a focus of early detection initiative
New approaches are being developed that could eventually help doctors to pick out and treat unusual growths on the bowel wall, writes CLAIRE O'CONNELL
“There’s a huge amount of evidence to say that if you it early, at the pre-cancer stage, and you remove it, then you reduce the incidence of cancer, and that’s the whole basis of the screening programmes,” says Dr Paul Neary, a consultant colorectal surgeon at Tallaght hospital and a senior lecturer at the Royal College of Surgeons (RCSI) and Trinity College Dublin.
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