ACP Journal Club. Automated reminders and increasing intense support increased uptake of colorectal cancer screening.

Self-perceived Mental Health Status and Uptake of Fecal Occult Blood Test for Colorectal Cancer Screening in Canada: A Cross-Sectional Study

Background While colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most preventable causes of cancer mortality, it is one of the leading causes of cancer death in Canada where CRC screening uptake is suboptimal. Given the increased rate of mortality and morbidity among mental health patients, their condition could be a potential barrier to CRC screening due to greater difficulties in adhering to behaviours...

physician reminders and audit with feedback are effective in increasing breast cancer screening

and Commentary also published in ACP Journal Club I995;i23:25. cancer screening in women 40 to 49 years of age is controversial, its efficacy in women SO to 74 years of age is undisputed (1). Despite the strength of the evidence, breast cancer screening is largely underased. Interventions that are found to be effective in increasing the rate of physician recommendation for breast cancer screeni...

Updated recommendations for client- and provider-oriented interventions to increase breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening.

The Community Preventive Services Task Force (Task Force) recommends increasing screening for breast cancer through use of group education, one-on-one education, client reminders, reducing client out-of-pocket costs, and provider assessment and feedback; increasing screening for cervical cancer through use of one-on-one education, client reminders, and provider assessment and feedback; and incr...

The MMRpro model accurately predicted the probability of carrying a cancer-susceptibility gene mutation for the Lynch syndrome.

Review: hemoccult screening reduces death from colorectal cancer in average-risk patients > 50 years of age.

S t u d y s e l e c t i o n English-language studies were selected if they evaluated Hemoccult testing, flexible sigmoidoscopy, or genetic testing as the first step in a multiphase secondary prevention strategy or colonoscopy as a single-phase secondary prevention strategy in both asymptomatic and high-risk patients. Studies that screened with digital rectal examination and doublecontrast bariu...