Medical News Summary: 60% of at risk Americans over 50 haven’t been screened for colorectal cancer.

About: 60% of at risk Americans over 50 haven’t been screened for colorectal cancer.
Date: 17 December 2004
Source: Reuters Health
Medical News Summary (summary of medical news story as reported by Reuters Health): After analyzing data from the US Census Bureau and the CDC National Interview Survey, experts claim that nearly 60% of Americans over 50 face an average risk of colorectal cancer but haven’t been screened. To perform a sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy on all these people would be unachievable so, it would be ideal if people did a blood-in-stool test first and only if this was positive, then have a colonoscopy. This would avoid unnecessary expensive tests.
URL: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=571&ncid=751&e=11&u=/nm/20041217/hl_nm/colon_cancer_dc
Related Disease Topics: Colorectal cancer
Related Symptom Topics: Blood in stool

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