By Jeff Minerd
Source Medpagetoday
Mean rates of colorectal cancer (CRC) screening tripled among average-risk individuals 45-49 years old after the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) issued a recommendation encouraging screening in this group, according to a retrospective cohort study.
The mean screening rate increased from 0.50% every 2 months before the recommendation to 1.51% every 2 months afterward (P<0.001), a 3-fold increase that represented an absolute change of 1.01 percentage points, reported Sunny Siddique, MPH, of the Yale School of Public Health in New Haven, Connecticut, and colleagues.
Those in the highest socioeconomic category experienced the largest absolute increase in screening (1.25 percentage points) compared with the lowest category (0.75 percentage points), but relative changes were not significant, they said in JAMA Network Openopens in a new tab or window.
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