Thursday 7 November 2013

About a third of US adults not getting colon cancer screenings

About one-third of US adults who should be getting screened for colon cancer aren’t getting screened, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The agency reports that just 65.1% of eligible adult Americans, about two-thirds, are up-to-date with colon cancer screening tests. Of the rest, most have never been screened at all. Read more here.

Read the CDC report here.

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