Colorectal cancer screening: making sense of the different guidelines.
Screening for colorectal cancer, as called for by new guidelines from three different groups, should result in a lower mortality rate from this disease. This paper reviews the guidelines' similarities and differences and gives our recommendations for situations in which the data remain incomplete and controversy persists.
D000236:Adenoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000517:prevention & control; D000368:Aged; D001466:Barium Sulfate; D003113:Colonoscopy; D015179:Colorectal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000517:prevention & control*; D004198:Disease Susceptibility; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D008875:Middle Aged; D009780:Occult Blood; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D012307:Risk Factors; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012812:Sigmoidoscopy