In reply: Macrae and Hebbard fail to grasp the concept that colorectal cancer is the only potentially preventable cancer in men and one of the two preventable cancers in women. In any discussion about screening options, this fact must be kept clearly in focus.
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Correspondence: T.Bolin@unsw.edu.au
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