Grace Burns

But you'd still refer them?

you'd still make the referral pattern.

So it would show up in this study because it would be seen as an investigation or something that's been done.

Well, I wonder if it's more complex because there are time constraints in general practice.

And I know the way you've done this study appears to be looking through records and the reason for encounter.

And I have to say that, Shaoqi, when I write in the notes, often the nuance is captured in the clinical record and what I've discussed.

And it might have been the third thing that someone's raised in a consult.

So it might potentially not have been picked up, I don't know, in your study.

And I think we should point out that there are increasing bowel cancer rates in younger people.

So in that under 50 age group and the rates actually in people over 50, we're detecting it well, they're part of the screening program.

But symptoms like rectal bleeding, a change in bowel habit, take it seriously, go and talk to someone.

And if you feel, you know, not validated or reassured enough, persist again.

Because this study shows that if you keep going back, you're more likely to be investigated.

Yes.

On ABC Radio National, you're with The Health Report.

You're throwing me under the bus.

It's not that I'm not a believer.

It's that I sit in the consulting room and often try to access a record which is incomplete.

And it can be quite a clunky system.

I'm sorry to hear about the breast cancer, Christine.