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AUGUST 10, 2018

Analysis of Failures Shows Limits of CRC Screening Efforts

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