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What will I have to bring for my first consultation

Current referral from your doctor (If you do not have referral, you will not be able to claim the Medicare rebate for your visit and payment will be required in full for your visit)
  • Imaging if any – X-ray or CT scan
  • Medicare and Private Health Fund details
  • DVA or pension card if appropriate

  • Campbelltown Private Hospital
  • Sydney Southwest Private Hospital
  • Holroyd Private Hospital
  • Westmead Private Hospital
  • Norwest Private Hospital
  • Lakeview Private Hospital

  • People who have already had bowel cancer or polyps.
  • One or more relatives have had polyps or bowel cancer.
  • Extensive, long-standing inflammatory bowel conditions

  • Abdominal symptoms - pain, bloating, weight loss
  • Altered bowel habits
  • Bleeding from the bowel
  • Iron deficiency anaemia – tiredness, feeling listless.

Bowel cancer most commonly starts from a polyp or growth within the inner lining of large bowel and this can be prevented with regular testing. Finding and removing such bowel polyps before they turn into cancer, can effectively prevent bowel cancer from developing. Hence the need for regular bowel cancer screening.

  • Abdominal symptoms - pain, bloating, weight loss
  • Altered bowel habits
  • Bleeding from the bowel
  • Iron deficiency anaemia – tiredness, feeling listless People who have already had bowel cancer or polyps.
  • One or more relatives have had polyps or bowel cancer.

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