title: Lessons learned from the CDC's Colorectal Cancer Screening Demonstration Program.
abstract: This report briefly summarizes 13 articles in this dedicated supplement to Cancer documenting the full implementation and evaluation of CDC's Colorectal Cancer Screening Demonstration Program (CRCSDP). The supplement includes 3 articles that describe clinical and quality outcomes; 2 articles that describe programmatic and clinical costs; 3 that were based on a multiple case study, using qualitative methods to describe the overall implementation experience of this initiative; and 4 articles written by and about individual program sites. The comprehensive, multi-methods evaluation conducted alongside the program produced many important lessons regarding the design, start-up, and implementation of colorectal cancer screening in this high-need population, and paved the way for the CDC to establish a larger, population-based colorectal cancer control initiative, broadly aligned with expectations of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act through its population-based emphasis on using a health systems approach to increase colorectal cancer screening. Cancer 2013;119(15 suppl):2817-9. © 2013 American Cancer Society.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341-3717, USA. lseeff@cdc.gov
authors.forename: Laura C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Seeff
authors.forename: Elizabeth A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Rohan
mesh_terms: D002487:Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.; D003113:Colonoscopy / Q000379:methods; D015179:Colorectal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D055088:Early Detection of Cancer / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009780:Occult Blood; D014481:United States
keywords: cancer screening programs; colonoscopy; colorectal cancer prevention; colorectal cancer screening; fecal occult blood testing