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- Title
Using Outreach to Improve Colorectal Cancer Screening.
- Authors
Pignone, Michael; Miller Jr., David P.; Miller, David P Jr
- Abstract
An editorial is presented which addresses the use of outreach interventions to promote the utilization of colorectal cancer screening tests, and it mentions how medical screenings can reduce the number of colorectal cancer deaths that occur in places such as the U.S. Several reports that appear in the same issue of the journal are mentioned, along with colonoscopy examinations, fecal occult blood testing (FOBT), and fecal immunohistochemical tests.
- Subjects
COLON cancer diagnosis; EARLY detection of cancer; UTILIZATION of medical screening; CANCER-related mortality; COLONOSCOPY; FECAL occult blood tests; PREVENTION; COLON tumors; MEDICAL screening; RECTUM tumors
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2017, Vol 318, Issue 9, p799
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
editorial
- DOI
10.1001/jama.2017.10606