Stool-Based Screening Tests for Colorectal Cancer

JAMA. 2023 Mar 14;329(10):839-840. doi: 10.1001/jama.2023.0547.
No abstract available

Plain language summary

A 56-year-old man with no significant medical history has declined screening colonoscopy at previous physician visits but wants to undergo a less invasive test because his father died of colorectal cancer at age 80. What would you do next?

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Colonoscopy
  • Colorectal Neoplasms* / diagnosis
  • Early Detection of Cancer* / methods
  • Feces* / chemistry
  • Humans
  • Mass Screening / methods
  • Occult Blood