December 7, 2009
Comprehensive Colon Cancer Screening Guidelines Available
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) has recently released a comprehensive set of guidelines on Colorectal Cancer Screening. These guidelines are an important part of reducing serious illness and death due to colon cancer. When caught early with routine screening, colon cancer is easier to treat and much more likely to be cured than when it is discovered in more advanced stages.
By making the guidelines available to anyone, NCCN is helping health care providers in all types of medical care settings identify exactly who needs colon cancer screening, and when and how often they need it. This may seem like a “no-brainer”, but it turns out that making these guidelines available can improve health care in many parts of the US.
In some small and rural health care settings, access to the latest research and information on cancer screening and treatment may not be readily available to doctors. This puts the [...]
Source: About Colon Cancer
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