The Social Security is mobilizing to fight against the shortage of kits to detect colorectal cancer, she announced in a press release. Due to a legal entanglement over a contract with the Cerba laboratory, the testing kit was increasingly difficult to find.
However, colorectal cancer is the second deadliest in France, with nearly 18,000 deaths per year. It has been the subject of a European-wide screening program since 2009, particularly aimed at people between 50 and 74 years old. With the aim of reaching a minimum of 45% of people tested.
A painless home screening
The screening is carried out via a painless test carried out at home. The goal is to spot the presence of small lesions called polyps, which could turn into cancer, and remove them in time. But Santà © Publique France revealed that between 2017 and 2018, only 5.5 million people in this age group had been screened. Or 32.1% of which 4% were diagnosed at risk of cancer.
While the kits were in short supply in several regions of France, the Social Security announced Friday, May 10, to have implemented an emergency measure in the form of “transitional market for the supply of tracking kits“for this type of cancer. If the press release is to be believed:”deliveries of kits to healthcare professionals and regional cancer coordination and screening centers will resume from June 21“, which were therefore supposedly discontinued. From the end of May it will again be possible to access the online ordering device of the kit.
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