Screening for Colorectal Cancer: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement.

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Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. In 2016, an estimated 134,000 persons will be diagnosed with the disease, and about 49,000 will die from it. Colorectal cancer is most frequently diagnosed among adults aged 65 to 74 years; the median age at death from colorectal cancer is 68 years.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): JAMA

Title: JAMA

Publisher: American Medical Association (AMA)

ISSN (Electronic): 1538-3598

ISSN (Print): 0098-7484

Publication date (Electronic): Jun 21 2016

Volume: 315

Issue: 23

Affiliations

[1 ] University of California, San Francisco.

[2 ] Group Health Research Institute, Seattle, Washington.

[3 ] University of Iowa, Iowa City.

[4 ] Columbia University, New York, New York.

[5 ] State University of New York Upstate Medical University, Syracuse.

[6 ] Pima County Department of Health, Tucson, Arizona.

[7 ] Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts.

[8 ] University of Louisville, Kentucky.

[9 ] Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

[10 ] Fairfax Family Practice Residency, Fairfax, Virginia11Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.

[11 ] Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

[12 ] University of Alabama at Birmingham.

[13 ] University of California, Los Angeles.

[14 ] Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California16Stanford University, Stanford, California.

[15 ] University of Washington, Seattle.

[16 ] Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.

[17 ] University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

[18 ] Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York21James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx, New York.

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Publisher Item ID: 2529486

DOI: 10.1001/jama.2016.5989

PubMed ID: 27304597

SO-VID: f96cf551-c7b3-483d-aebb-1e253243944d

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