Personal tools
You are here: Home → News → How Often To Screen for Colon Cancer? NEJM Study Finds 5-Year Risk Extremely Low
Navigation
 
Document Actions

How Often To Screen for Colon Cancer? NEJM Study Finds 5-Year Risk Extremely Low

last modified 2008-09-18 11:29

How frequently should symptom-free individuals at average risk for colon cancer undergo screening with colonoscopy? In a study published in the Sept. 18, 2008, New England Journal of Medicine, researchers led by Thomas F. Imperiale, M.D., of the Indiana University School of Medicine and the Regenstrief Institute, report that while there still is no definitive answer to the question, they now know the procedure need not be performed any sooner than every five years.

INDIANAPOLIS — How frequently should symptom-free individuals at average risk for colon cancer undergo screening with colonoscopy? In a study published in the Sept. 18, 2008, New England Journal of Medicine

, researchers led by Thomas F. Imperiale, M.D., of the Indiana University School of Medicine and the Regenstrief Institute, report that while there still is no definitive answer to the question, they now know the procedure need not be performed any sooner than every five years.

 

Full Text of News Release Here

.