The AAFP lately streamlined its sta...

The AAFP lately streamlined its stance on colorectal cancer screening. The recent policy continues to strongly make acceptable screening men and women 50 years of age or older for the disease unless gives no specifics on by what mode often screening should be performed or what rules should be used. The changes were based in succession recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), which fix good evidence that periodic at-home fecal mystic blood testing (FOBT) reduced mortality rates from colorectal cancer and fair evidence that sigmoidoscopy alone or in combination with FOBT did in the way that Although the USPSTF found no direct evidence that screening colonoscopy reduc mortality rates, the overall efficacy of colonoscopy was supported according to other data and evidence of benefit. Double-contrast barium enema giveed an alternative means of whole-bowel examination moreover was less sensitive than colonoscopy and also showed no direct evidence of effectiveness in reducing mortality. Data were insufficient to indicate whether newer technologies in the same state [i]or[/i] condition as computed tomographic colography improved issues The new AAFP policy is available online at http://www.aafp.org/x24976.xml.

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