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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Cancer Screening: Multicomponent Interventions—Colorectal Cancer

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Systematic Review

Source: The Guide to Community Preventive Services

Last Reviewed: August 2016

Workgroups: Cancer Workgroup

The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends multicomponent interventions to increase screening for colorectal cancer. Interventions are effective in increasing screening with colonoscopy or fecal occult blood testing. CPSTF found that these interventions are most effective when they combine strategies to increase: 

  • Community demand for cancer screening 
  • Access to cancer screening
  • Provider delivery of services

CPSTF found that these interventions can increase screening in underserved populations. If access to appropriate follow-up care and treatment are provided, they may improve health for these groups.

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Objectives related to this resource (2)

Reduce the colorectal cancer death rate — C‑06
Improving
Increase the proportion of adults who get screened for colorectal cancer — C‑07
LHI label
Baseline only

Suggested Citation

1.

Guide to Community Preventive Services. (2016). Cancer screening: multicomponent interventions—colorectal cancer. Retrieved from https://www.thecommunityguide.org/findings/cancer-screening-multicomponent-interventions-colorectal-cancer