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- Title
Expert Panel Offers Advice to Improve Screening Rates for Colorectal Cancer.
- Authors
Slomski, Anita
- Abstract
The article focuses on the expert advice offered by a National Institutes of Health panel in April 2010 on how to improve screening rates for colorectal cancer. It presents data on colorectal screening in the U.S. in 2008. It cites the findings from the National Health Interview Survey about the efficacy of colonoscopy against fecal occult blood testing (FOBT) as colorectal screening method. Hence, panelists called for further studies on best ways to educate patients on the various colorectal cancer screening methods, and reduce the discrepancies in screening rates among racial and ethnic populations.
- Subjects
COLON cancer; MEDICAL screening; COLONOSCOPY; CANCER patients; COLON examination; CANCER diagnosis; FECAL occult blood tests; NATIONAL Institutes of Health (U.S.)
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2010, Vol 303, Issue 14, p1356
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.2010.360