ARHRF BOWELSCAN

Bowelscan is a Rotary Community Service program, developed in 1982 in District 9640 and now conducted by
more than 500 Rotary clubs across Australia.

These clubs issue approximately 100,000 kits during their annual colorectal screening programs.
Since Bowelscan commenced more than 500 people with bowel cancer and 2,400 with polyps have been detected. Bowelscan is essentially a public awareness program, seeking to increase community knowledge of bowel cancer and its symptoms with a view to its earlier diagnosis.

The project also involves the distribution to the public of a simple scanning kit on which is collected small specimens of faeces for laboratory analysis to detect evidence of minute traces of internal bleeding.

Bowelscan became a program of the Australian Rotary Health Research Fund in 2003. It has become an integral part of the ARHRF, having developed a major presence across many Rotary districts.

Details of the program’s administration are available from:
Secretary of the National Bowelscan Committee
Lionel Phelps
Telephone (02) 6624 2363
Fax (02) 6624 4803
E-mail lphelps@scu.edu.au