NIH R01 · 2025
Rural Community Support for Colonoscopy
PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Appropriate screening can reduce CRC mortality. Colonoscopy, a procedure to detect CRC early, is recommended for patients with a positive fecal immunochemical test (FIT) result to detect CRC and can even prevent CRC through the removal of pre-cancerous polyps. Rural and low-income populations face significant barriers to colonoscopy completion after positive FIT, including difficult access to the procedure (lack of local providers/long travel times), socioeconomic barriers to completing the procedure (difficulty getting time off work, arranging childcare and transportation, high…
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