Commentary: Cheaper and Easier Isn't Better in Colon Cancer Screening

Commentary: Cheaper and Easier Isn’t Better in Colon Cancer Screening

Although fecal immunochemical testing can detect colon cancer, it’s often at such a late stage that it’s effectively untreatable, said Tim Byers, MD, MPH, associate director for prevention and control at the University of Colorado Cancer Center and professor of epidemiology at the Colorado School of Public Health in the Colorado Cancer Blog.

Proponents of the FIT test recommend screenings every year instead of every five to ten years as with other tests, but Dr. Byers said as a society, we are bad at doing anything every year. For that reason, he thinks using the FIT test will result in less early-stage detection.

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