Annals of internal medicine
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Multicenter Study
Impact of age and comorbidity on colorectal cancer screening among older veterans.
The Veterans Health Administration, the American Cancer Society, and the American Geriatrics Society recommend colorectal cancer screening for older adults unless they are unlikely to live 5 years or have significant comorbidity that would preclude treatment. ⋯ Advancing age was inversely associated with colorectal cancer screening, whereas comorbidity was a weaker predictor. More attention to comorbidity is needed to better target screening to older patients with substantial life expectancies and avoid screening older patients with limited life expectancies. primary funding source: VA Health Services Research and Development.