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Colorectal cancer: “Safely” announces “sustainable” solution for screening

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Paris (AFP)

Health Insurance announced Wednesday that it has entered into a new contract for the supply of colorectal cancer screening kits, thus ensuring “a sustainable framework for the next five years”, after a legal imbroglio which had raised fears of a shortage last year .

“The finalization of this procedure poses, for the next five years, a lasting framework essential to the pursuit of this key screening,” said the National Health Insurance Fund (Cnam) in a press release.

“The new screening kits” will be available “at the latest during the month of May”, and will remain supplied by the Cerba laboratory, already chosen by Health Insurance in 2014 and in 2018.

But the renewal of this market had been challenged by three rejected competitors, who won their case: the Paris administrative court in April 2019 pronounced the cancellation of the market, confirmed in July by the Council of State.

A setback fraught with consequences, since in the spring, the local press reported shortages in several regions, pushing the CNAM to “take an emergency measure” in May, in the form of a “transitional market” allowing “a rapid resumption of orders and deliveries “.

Beyond the different commercial, colorectal cancer remains “a real public health problem”, with 43,000 new cases and 17,000 deaths estimated in 2018, says Health Insurance.

According to Public Health France, between 2017 and 2018, 5.5 million people aged 50 to 74 years took a screening test, ie a participation rate of 32.1%, much lower “than the minimum acceptable European target 45% “. The test made it possible to diagnose a risk of cancer for 4% of them.

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