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MAY 14, 2025

Simple Patient Outreach Led to 50% Drop in CRC Mortality Rates


SAN DIEGO—Offering flexible options for colorectal cancer screening doubled screening rates, cut cancer incidence by a third, halved deaths, and reduced racial differences in outcomes to nearly zero, according to results from a long-term study at a major integrated health system presented at DDW 2025.

To better understand variations among ethnic groups in the development of CRC and CRC-related mortality  and to assess how screening outreach could shift diagnoses and death rates,