title: How to improve colon cancer screening rates.
abstract: Colorectal carcinoma is a common cause of death throughout the world and may be prevented by routine control, which can detect precancerous neoplasms and early cancers before they undergo malignant transformation or metastasis. Three strategies may improve colon cancer screening rates: convince the population about the importance of undergoing a screening test; achieve higher efficacy in standard screening tests and make them more available to the community and develop new more sensitive and efficacious screening methods and make them available as routine tests. In this light, the present study seeks to review these three means through which to increase colon cancer screening rates.
authors.affiliation: Luiz Ronaldo Alberti, David Correa Alves De Lima, Andy Petroianu, Department of Surgery, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte 30130-100, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
authors.forename: Luiz Ronaldo
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Alberti
authors.affiliation: Luiz Ronaldo Alberti, David Correa Alves De Lima, Andy Petroianu, Department of Surgery, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte 30130-100, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
authors.forename: Diego Paim Carvalho
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Garcia
authors.affiliation: Luiz Ronaldo Alberti, David Correa Alves De Lima, Andy Petroianu, Department of Surgery, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte 30130-100, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
authors.forename: Debora Lucciola
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Coelho
authors.affiliation: Luiz Ronaldo Alberti, David Correa Alves De Lima, Andy Petroianu, Department of Surgery, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte 30130-100, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
authors.forename: David Correa Alves
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: De Lima
authors.affiliation: Luiz Ronaldo Alberti, David Correa Alves De Lima, Andy Petroianu, Department of Surgery, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte 30130-100, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
authors.forename: Andy
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Petroianu
keywords: Colon cancer; Colon cancer screening; Colonoscopy; New technology; Screening tests