ACS researchers published their findings in the Journal of Medical Screening. They examined self-reported past-year colonoscopy rates for 53,175 respondents between 40 and 54 years old from 2000 to 2015.
What you should know:
1. CRC screening rates in the 40-44 year age group were stable (2.3 percent to 3.5 percent). In the 45-49 year age group rates rose from 2.5 percent to 5.2 percent, and in the 50-54 year age group rates rose from 5 percent to 14.1 percent.
2. CRC incidence rates in the 40-44 year age group increased by 28 percent; in the 45-49 year age group rates increased 15 percent; and in the 50-54 year age group rates increased 17 percent.
Researchers recommended that future studies monitor colonoscopy rates in the 45-49 year old age range and examine how lowering the recommended CRC screening rate from 50 to 45 years could affect CRC incidence rates.
“We found the changes in past-year colonoscopy rates did not fully align with the rise in overall and distant-stage CRC incidence rates in all three age groups during the corresponding period,” Stacey Fedewa, PhD, of ACS’s Department of Surveillance & Health Services Research, told MedPage Today.
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