Colorectal Cancer Screening

This National Institutes of Health database of colorectal cancer screening programs helps program planners find evidence-based programs for different settings, population groups, and community types. Examples include:

• Against Colorectal Cancer in Our Neighborhoods, a community-based intervention using community health workers to increase colorectal cancer screening in uninsured Hispanic adults
• Automated Telephone Calls Improve Completion of Fecal Occult Blood Testing, a reminder telephone call intervention to increase colorectal cancer screening 
• Colorectal Cancer Education, Screening and Prevention Program: Empowering Communities for Life, a community-based intervention to increase colorectal cancer screening in underserved adults through a presentation by a health professional on cancer, cancer prevention, and screening; a fecal occult blood test kit; and other elements