title: Knowing is most of the battle.
abstract: Colorectal carcinoma is the fourth most frequently diagnosed cancer and second most frequent cause of death from cancer in the United States. Each year in Michigan, more than 5,000 people are diagnosed with invasive colorectal cancer, and more than 2,000 persons die from this disease.
authors.affiliation: Cancer Control, American Cancer Society, Great Lakes Division, Lansing, USA.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Rakowski
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: DeDecker
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Westendorp
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003113:Colonoscopy; D015179:Colorectal Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods*; D008824:Michigan / Q000453:epidemiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009780:Occult Blood; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology