Initiating colorectal cancer screening starting at 40 years of age is cost-effective, a new study has found.
The findings are relevant in light of the increasing incidence of CRC among people under 50 years of age, said Nilofer Azad, MD, the co-director of the Colorectal Cancer Research Center of Excellence at the Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, in Baltimore, and the senior author of the paper. Dr. Azad’s group published their findings in April in Preventive