Screening guidelines may miss ten percent of colon cancers
In the largest population-based study to date, researchers from Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah made this finding based on nearly 127,000 individuals who underwent colonoscopy in Utah between 1995 and 2009. The results appear online in “Early View” of the journal Cancer. Family history of colon cancer is widely accepted as a factor that increases risk for the disease. …