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Episode: Why critics call the Government’s latest bowel screening policy ‘pathetic’
Description: Bowel cancer is the second highest cause of cancer death in New Zealand. 1 in 10 Kiwis diagnosed are under 50 and every day, around three New Zealanders die from bowel cancer. Now, keep these figures in mind when I tell you that Health Minister Simeon Brown has announced the Government is lowering the screening from 60 to 58 for all Kiwis – and canned plans to lower the age for Māori and Pacific men to 50. That might be a good fit for the Pākehā majority, but less so for Māori and Pacific, given more of those group...