Summary
Guidelines recommend that peoples with a high-risk family history of colorectal cancer (CRC) undergo colonoscopy examinations every five years, starting when they are 40 years old. The authors investigated factors associated with colonoscopy screening of individuals with a family history of CRC, focusing on race and ethnicity.
Using the 2009 California Health Interview Survey, authors found that fewer than two-thirds of individuals with a family history of CRC reported receiving guideline-recommended colonoscopy examinations within the past five years. They also found racial and ethnic disparities in colonoscopy screening of this high-risk group: Latinos and African-Americans were less likely to have had a colonoscopy than Whites.
Publication Authors:
- Christopher Almario, MD, MSHPM
- Folasade P. May
- Ninez A. Ponce, PhD, MPP
- Brennan Spiegel