{"id":304751,"date":"2024-05-16T22:47:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T22:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/offering-both-colonoscopy-and-at-home-tests-to-study-patients-doubled-colorectal-cancer-screening\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T22:47:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T22:47:32","slug":"offering-both-colonoscopy-and-at-home-tests-to-study-patients-doubled-colorectal-cancer-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/offering-both-colonoscopy-and-at-home-tests-to-study-patients-doubled-colorectal-cancer-screening\/","title":{"rendered":"Offering both colonoscopy and at-home tests to study patients doubled colorectal cancer screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Credit: Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology (2024). DOI: 10.1016\/j.cgh.2024.04.003 The rate of colorectal cancer screenings more than doubled when patients were given a choice between which type of screening they wanted\u2014a take-home kit or colonoscopy\u2014compared to those who were only offered the colonoscopy, according to new research led by the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Facilitated through a community health center in which about half of patients had Medicaid insurance, the study\u2014published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology\u2014provides insights about how to boost screenings among groups that are <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/offering-both-colonoscopy-and-at-home-tests-to-study-patients-doubled-colorectal-cancer-screening\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit: Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology (2024). DOI: 10.1016\/j.cgh.2024.04.003 The rate of colorectal cancer screenings more than doubled when patients were given a choice between which type of screening they wanted\u2014a take-home kit or colonoscopy\u2014compared to those who were only offered the colonoscopy, according to new research led by the Perelman School of Medicine at the <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/offering-both-colonoscopy-and-at-home-tests-to-study-patients-doubled-colorectal-cancer-screening\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}