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Doctors may be less likely to discuss screening options for colorectal cancer with newly eligible younger adults

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Doctors may be less likely to discuss screening options for colorectal cancer with newly eligible younger adults

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Among surveyed U.S. adults aged 45–49, who are eligible for colorectal cancer (CRC) screening per the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendations, only about half reported that their doctors had discussed different options for CRC screening with them, and nearly a quarter said they never discussed CRC screening tests with a doctor at all, according to research presented at the 19th AACR Conference on The Science of Cancer Health Disparities, held Oct. 18–21 in Atlanta.

The results of this study will be published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

"As of 2021, the USPSTF recommends that adults begin screening for CRC at age 45, but screening is very low at younger ages. Only about 37% of adults 45–49 years of age are up to date with current colorectal cancer screening recommendations," said presenter Jordan Baeker Bispo, Ph.D., MPH, a principal scientist of cancer disparity research at the American Cancer Society.

"Since screening in this age group is so low, we were curious about the extent to which younger adults are being counseled on colorectal cancer screening and the different options that are available to them for getting screened."

She added, "We know that receiving a clinician's recommendation to get screened is one of the strongest determinants of screening behavior, and screening also tends to increase when patients are offered alternatives to colonoscopy, like at-home stool testing ."


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