Researcher calls for changes to colorectal cancer screening guidelines

Saturday, October 3, 2015 - 06:50 in Health & Medicine

Colorectal cancer will claim the lives of close to 50,000 Americans this year, according to the American Cancer Society. Screening is the most effective way to reduce the risk of dying from the disease, yet as a physician argues in a recent editorial, current recommendations to screen older people with a family history of colorectal cancer, specifically with colonoscopy every five years, is not justified for most patients.

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