It only took me about 3 minutes...As a nurse, I think this is so important because it's a cancer that hides for a long time, but is so easily cured if found early (age 50 or so). The polyps are removed during a colonoscopy and usually that's it! And we give really really good drugs for the procedure - the prep is what sucks.
New Tool Developed to Predict Colorectal
Cancer Risk A new online tool for calculating colorectal cancer risk in men
and women age 50 or older was launched today, based on a new risk-assessment
model developed by researchers at the National Cancer Institute
(NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health. This new tool
may assist health care providers and their patients in making informed
choices about when and how to screen for colorectal cancer and
can be used in designing colorectal cancer screening and prevention
trials. An article describing the new risk-assessment model and
a second article describing its validation appear online December
29, 2008, in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. The risk assessment
tool is available on the NCI Web site at www.cancer.gov/colorectalcancerrisk,
and people using this tool should work with their health care providers
to interpret the results.
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