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title: "Bowel cancer - Sapience Financial"
description: "Explore the standard treatments for colon and rectal cancer, including surgery, chemotherapy, and targeted therapies, to combat bowel cancer effectively."
url: "https://sapience.com.au/cost-burden-of/bowel-cancer"
date: "2026-06-13T03:39:13+00:00"
language: "en-GB"
---

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## Bowel cancer

The number of new cases of bowel cancer has increased in the last 4 decades from 7,000 in 1982 to 17,000 and 2018.

- Bowel cancer is more common in people over the age of 50 years.
- The chance of developing bowel cancer by age 85 years is 1-13
- Bowel cancer is the **second most common cause of death from cancer in Australia**.
- Overall survival rates for bowel cancer are much lower than other common forms of cancer such as prostate and breast.

Standard treatment types include.

**Colon cancer**:
Surgery
Radio ablation
Cryosurgery
Chemotherapy
Radiation therapy
Targeted therapy

**Rectal cancer**:
Surgery
Chemotherapy
Radiation therapy
Targeted Therapies

![bowel cancer cost to care sapience financial](https://sapience.com.au/images/cost-to-care/bowel-cancer-cost-to-care-sapience-financial.svg)![standard treatments bowel cancer cost to care sapience financial](https://sapience.com.au/images/cost-to-care/standard-treatments-bowel-cancer-cost-to-care-sapience-financial.svg)

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