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Article: MultiVu Video Feed: New National Colorectal Cancer Screening Guidelines Issued by the American Cancer Society.
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- March 6, 2008
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Non-Invasive Dna Screening Option May Save More Lives
New national colorectal cancer (CRC) screening guidelines issued today by the American Cancer Society support DNA screening as an option for detecting colorectal cancer. Currently, there are 89 million Americans over the age of 50 who should be getting regular screening for colorectal cancer. According to the American Cancer Society, less than half of Americans age 50 or older have any colorectal cancer screening at all.
Despite the availability of screening and diagnostic tests for more than 20 years, the rate of early detection remains low and deaths from CRC, the second most deadly cancer, remain ...