Collaboration, community engagement key to shifting trends in CRC screening, outcomes

The rising incidence of colorectal cancer among young adult patients is disturbing but not surprising.As health care providers, we have been following these trends for some time, both through the work of investigators like Rebecca Siegel, MPH, senior scientific director of surveillance research at the American Cancer Society, who oversees the organization’s annual CRC statistics report, and in real time in clinical practice and through patient and patient advocate stories.While our advances in overall CRC prevention, screening and treatment — particularly among those aged 50 yearsRead More