Colorectal Cancer Screening Initiation After Age 50 Years in an Organized Program.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Recent studies report racial disparities among individuals in organized colorectal cancer (CRC) programs; however, there is a paucity of information on CRC screening utilization by race/ethnicity among newly age-eligible adults in such programs.

Methods

This was a retrospective cohort study among Kaiser Permanente Northern California enrollees who turned age 50 years between 2007 and 2012 (N=138,799) and were served by a systemwide outreach and facilitated in-reach screening program based primarily on mailed fecal immunochemical tests to screening-eligible people. Kaplan-Meier and Cox model analyses were used to estimate differences in receipt of CRC screening in 2015-2016.

Results

Cumulative probabilities of CRC screening within 1 and 2 years of subjects

SUBMITTER: Fedewa SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5562515 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature