Where Can Colorectal Cancer Screening Interventions Have the Most Impact?

Where can colorectal cancer screening interventions have the most impact?

BACKGROUND Although colorectal cancer death rates in the United States have declined by half since 1970, large geographic disparities persist. Spatial identification of high-risk areas can facilitate targeted screening interventions to close this gap. METHODS We used the Getis-Ord Gi* statistic within ArcGIS to identify contemporary colorectal cancer "hotspots" (spatial clusters of counties w...

Interventions to Promote Colorectal Cancer Screening: An

Susan M. Rawl, PhD, RN, FAAN [Associate Professor], Indiana University School of Nursing, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA Usha Menon, PhD, RN, FAAN [Pamela Kidd Distinguished Research Professor], College of Nursing and Health Innovation, Arizona State University, and the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, Phoenix, Arizona, USA Allison Burness, BSN [Cancer Research Training Fellow], and Division of Cancer Co...

The Impact of Offering Colorectal Cancer Screening

Cardiovascular risk status can influence the colorectal cancer screening strategy.

vestigated in the study by Kim et al. were between 40 and 59 years of age. The overall prevalence of polyps (31.4%) is high in comparison with recent data from Rundle et al. [4] . A possible explanation is the exclusive male population that was studied. Regula et al. [5] have already shown a sex-related difference in polyp prevalence. The prevalence was equivalent in a cohort of men between 40 ...

Interventions to promote colorectal cancer screening: an integrative review.

Behavior change interventions to promote colorectal cancer (CRC) screening have targeted people in community and primary care settings, health care providers, and health systems. Randomized controlled trials provide the strongest evidence of intervention efficacy. The purpose of this integrative review was to evaluate trials of CRC screening interventions published between 1997 and 2007 and to ...