Colorectal Cancer

Screening Rates Remain Low

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, April 1st, 2001

Colorectal cancer screening rates in the United States remain low despite evidence that shows that at least a third of deaths due to colorectal cancer could be prevented if people 50 years and older are screened regularly, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The proportion of U.S. men and women aged 50 and older who reported having had a fecal occult blood test was 20.6% in 1999, and the proportion who reported having had a sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy within the previous five years was 33.6%, according to data published in the March 9, 2001, issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

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