How Often To Screen For Colon Cancer? Study Finds 5-year Risk Extremely Low

Thursday, September 18, 2008 - 16:32 in Health & Medicine

How frequently should symptom-free individuals at average risk for colon cancer undergo screening with colonoscopy? Researchers report that while there still is no definitive answer to the question, they now know the procedure need not be performed any sooner than every five years.

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