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October 2009, Vol 99, No. 10 | American Journal of Public Health 1733-1734
© 2009 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2009.172916

LETTERS

LIVING ARRANGEMENT AND COLORECTAL CANCER SCREENING: UPDATED USPSTF GUIDELINES

Denys T. Lau, PhD and James B. Kirby, PhD

Denys T. Lau is with the Buehler Center on Aging, Health and Society and the Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL. James B. Kirby is with the Center for Financing, Access, and Cost Trends, Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.

Correspondence: Correspondence should be sent to Denys T. Lau, PhD, Assistant Professor, Buehler Center on Aging, Health and Society, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, 750 North Lake Shore Dr, Suite 601, Chicago, IL 60611 (e-mail: D-Lau@northwestern.edu). Reprints can be ordered at http://www.ajph.org by clicking on the "Reprints/Eprints" link.

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

In a recent article,1 we examined the relationship between living arrangement and preventive care use among community-dwelling persons aged 65 years and older in the United States by analyzing the 2002–2005 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. Of the 6 preventive services examined, we defined adherence to recommended colorectal cancer screening (either fecal occult blood test within the past year or sigmoidoscopy within the past 5 years) according to the then current 2002 United States Preventive Service Task Force (USPSTF) guidelines.

In October 2008, the USPSTF revised its recommendations to advise against colorectal cancer screening in persons older than 85 years and . . . [Full Text]






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