PA Boards 89: Colon Cancer Screening

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🗓️ 19 August 2016

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Here are the updated USPSTF guidelines - there are now 7 options which are recommended to screen for colon cancer.

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0:00.0	All right, guys. So today's lecture is going to focus on colon cancer screening.
0:07.0	Now, colon cancer screening is, you know, kind of a touchy subject. a lot of patients are reluctant to actually
0:15.4	get colon cancer screening because they only feel like we have one option
0:19.3	available the colonoscopy now I'll be the first to tell you colonoscopy is probably the best
0:24.3	test to screen for colon cancer but there are other options. In fact the USPSTF recently announced in this month, June 2016, they announced four additional
0:36.6	options for colon cancer screening. So as of right now we have seven different options
0:41.6	you know that we can offer patients now still by far in my
0:45.7	opinion the colonoscopy is going to be the best screening tool that we have
0:49.3	available but it's up to you to educate your patients it's up to you to inform them
0:53.8	because ultimately this is you know kind of one of those shared decision models
0:57.6	now the USPSTF is really advocating any screening they don't really care what you offer your
1:04.7	patients so long as you offer an option that they were willing to do.
1:08.6	Because as of right now there's only about 60% of those that require colon cancer screening are actually
1:16.2	being screened.
1:17.2	So they have this, the USPSTF has this lofty goal to actually get 80% of patients.
1:24.1	So those that are supposed to be screened,
1:26.4	we have a goal of 80% to screen by 2018.
1:31.2	So what are the options, right? Well well colon cancer screening really starts at each 50 and we go to 75 years of age so long as we have a 10 year life expectancy
1:42.0	We have three original options which you're aware of. We have the colonoscopy,
1:46.3	sigmoidoscopy, and we have fecal occult testing, which is guiactyl testing for occult
1:51.1	blood. Now colonoscopy, right's got the best sensitivity it's got the best
1:56.0	specificity but the problem is it's invasive the problem is the fear a lot of
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