Club community service project for May. is Bowelscan WA, a district coordinated bowel cancer awareness program – 'Catch Cancer before it Catches You'. Rotary Margaret River works in partnership with local pharmacies that stock and sell the kits. Rotarians collect kits returned from participants and deliver to a local pathology laboratory for testing. 

 

Over 9,000 Australians will be diagnosed as having bowel cancer this year and over 4,500 will die of the disease.

Bowelscan is a Rotary program developed in 1982 in New South Wales and now conducted by over 250 Rotary Clubs across Australia.

Bowelscan is essentially a public awareness program seeking to increase community knowledge of bowel cancer and its symptoms. The project involves the distribution to the public of a simple test kit on which are collected small specimens for analysis.