Topic: Cancer: Colorectal

Clinicians & Providers

• Aid-assisted Decision Making and Colorectal Cancer Screening: a Randomized Controlled Trial

Other Research & Data

• Aid-assisted Decision Making and Colorectal Cancer Screening: a Randomized Controlled Trial
• Physicians need better understanding of factors that patients use to decide about colorectal cancer screening

Other News & Events

• Aid-assisted Decision Making and Colorectal Cancer Screening: a Randomized Controlled Trial
• Blacks have worse colorectal cancer survival rates than whites
• Colorectal cancer screening still underused
• Cost-effectiveness analysis supports genetic testing before patients with metastatic colorectal cancer are given irinotecan
• Elderly colon cancer patients receiving chemotherapy after surgery are at risk for various toxicities
• Fecal occult blood tests and followup need to be better targeted to healthy older adults
• Human-computer interaction evaluation can inform the redesign of computerized clinical reminders
• Increased use of anesthesiologists in screening colonoscopy found to raise costs, but risks and benefits are still unknown
• Many minority patients do not receive or complete colorectal cancer screening tests in urban, primary care settings
• Not enough evidence to recommend fecal DNA testing for adults at average risk for colorectal cancer
• Patients with inherited cancer syndrome need help with decisions and long-term support from their surgeons
• Physicians need better understanding of factors that patients use to decide about colorectal cancer screening
• Several factors influence completion of chemotherapy in elderly patients with stage-III colon cancer
• Survival rates for colon cancer patients on chemotherapy improve with addition of oxaliplatin
• When cancer drug went generic, its use declined