By Roxanne Nelson SEATTLE (Reuters Health) Oct 21 –
Even though it has been suggested that women may develop adenomas and colorectal cancer at an older age than men, researchers advised here Sunday at the American College of Gastroenterology’s annual meeting that women should not begin screening at a later age than men.
“The current guidelines recommend screening to begin at age 50 in an average-risk person,” lead author Dr. Brooks D. Cash, of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, told Reuters Health. He and his colleagues reviewed data from 1328 average-risk women who underwent colonoscopy for colorectal cancer screening “in an effort to determine if the appropriate screening age for colon cancer in women is later or the same in men.”
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