Screening for colorectal cancer at 45 would avert deaths, but testing older adults would do more

Sunday, March 31, 2019 - 16:30 in Health & Medicine

Starting routine colorectal cancer screening at age 45 rather than 50 would decrease U.S. cancer deaths, but screening a greater number of older and high-risk adults would avert nearly three times as many diagnoses and deaths at a lower cost.

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