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Available screening methods should make it possible to prevent most deaths from colorectal cancer. Almost all colorectal cancers arise from adenomatous polyps that develop over a period of years. During this time, polyps can be detected and then removed by colonoscopic polypectomy.¹

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the American Cancer Society, and a multidisciplinary expert panel assembled by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research and the American Gastroenterological Association, as well as other groups, have all recommended screening for colorectal cancer.^2,3,4,5,6 Standard recommendations include annual testing for fecal occult blood and periodic sigmoidoscopy after the age of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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