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Most research on colorectal cancer (CRC) screening focuses on promoting it. What about patient acceptance of recommendations to stop screening? Researchers asked 1000 patients (age range, 60–69) in a Veterans Affairs healthcare system about their comfort level with use of age and risk calculators to guide physician recommendations to stop CRC screening. Participants had normal results on at least one prior colonoscopy and were at average risk for CRC.
About 50% of respondents felt that physicians should never use age to decide when to stop screening. About one quarter felt it was not reasonable to use CRC risk calculators, and one quarter were not comfortable with physicians basing recommendations against screening on its low value due to ot…