By Ted Bosworth
Washington—Nearly 70% of patients who died of colorectal cancer were not up-to-date in screening for the condition, according to a review of six years of data from Kaiser Permanente networks in Northern and Southern California.
That percentage represents a large target for the effort to lower the rate of deaths from CRC, which is relevant to any system without perfect screening adherence. However, the findings also indicate that a small but substantial proportion of deaths