Dr. Shaoqi Li

Thank you so much, Priya.

Well, the symptoms are abdominal pain, diarrhoea, constipation, something like rectal bleeding and anemia.

Those are to be has a really high positive predict values.

Yeah, yeah, that's right.

I think the motivation of this study is because we know the coronary cancer is the second leading cause of the cancer deaths in Australia.

We know that the chances of a survivor are much higher when cancer is diagnosed early.

The problem is that the symptoms like abdominal pain, diarrhea, and constipation, those are extremely common in general practice.

And the vast majority of those people with those symptoms do not have cancer.

So our GPU is freezing.

a really difficult judgment call every single day.

The most socially disoriented patients had 45% low odds of being referred for colonoscopy or specialist care.

And that is really concerning, I think, from our data.

Yeah, that's a good point.

I think there's a message for consumers.

If you have the persistent bowel cancer symptoms, whether that's related to bleeding or changing your usual bowel habits, unexplained weight loss or abdominal pain that keeps coming back, say your GP and don't go there.

So our data says that the repeated visit, definitely.

So the GP is the right place to start and return if things don't improve.

And that is very important.

Yeah, I think that's a real problem.

It's one of the, I think, the limitation.