Not all doctors follow cancer screening guidelines, study finds

Friday, October 15, 2010 - 16:30 in Health & Medicine

Only one-fifth of primary care physicians in the US follow practice guidelines for colorectal cancer screening for all the tests they recommend, according a new study. About 40 percent followed guidelines for some of the tests they recommended and the remaining 40 percent did not follow guidelines for any of the screening tests they recommended.

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