‘Cases of bowel cancer here are too few to form analysis’
Saturday 20th November 2010, 2:29PM GMT.
LOCAL data is not robust enough to demonstrate how much money a bowel cancer screening programme could save long-term, according to Health and Social Services.
Former HSSD member Mike Hadley (pictured) asked the department to provide financial information on current treatment costs, some of which he believed could be recouped in future if a screening programme was introduced.
Nonetheless, in answering Deputy Hadley’s questions, the minister revealed that a significant amount of money had already been spent on treating the 35 islanders who are thought to be diagnosed each year.
Money spent on drugs for bowel cancer patients from November 2009 to October 2010 was £190,000 and the cost of radiotherapy, including travel to the UK, totalled £55,000 a year.
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Silly me for thinking that a bowel cancer screening program would be about saving lives rather than money.
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I can almost guarantee a states member will get this disease. When they do, I will go their funeral, and ask for it to be amended, whilst I place a requete.
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Wasn’t it either bowel cancer screening or storage? Hm… What a predicament… storage, or life!?
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Where can we read Deputy Hadley’s questions and HSSD’s response?
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Cases are too few to form analysis?
It could be said that the death toll from road accidents in Guernsey are too few to form an analysis yet no-one would question the value of road safety efforts. Economically speaking, the ratio of money spent on roads to money spent on road accident victims would be off the scale compared to the ratio of money spent on a screening program to money spent treating bowel cancer.
In any case, there’s plenty of data from elsewhere which Guernsey could use as evidence.
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