The chairman of Bowel Cancer Foundation, Graham Newstead has expressed his annoyance and frustration over the indecisiveness of the federal government on funds for the screening of bowel cancer.

He also made a suggestion that the government should act to assure the funding for the screening test in the coming times which was launched in the year 2006 and ended up saving the lives of at least 11,000 people.

The screening test procedure includes the testing the samples of feces to find out blood, abnormal cells or carcinogenic cells. This is also done to check if the patient requires to be doubly checked by colonoscopy.

Bowel cancer is more treatable than breast cancer but it still claims more lives in Australia then breast cancer according to associate professor Newstead. He also informed that the detection of bowel cancer in initial stages is not cancerous itself which is different from other forms of cancer and makes it easier to be treated before the disease completely develops.

He has also suggested a ‘brown ribbon day’ for the bowel cancer awareness.