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Colon Cancer: We Must Do Better

New screening approaches combine better risk assessment, use of non-invasive testing, and more targeted colonoscopy.

Michael Hunter, MD
5 min readAug 8, 2020

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Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash

Today, we look at a proposed shift in how we screen for colorectal cancer in the United States. I’ll start with the problem’s scope before turning to newer approaches to screening…

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Michael Hunter, MD

I have degrees from Harvard, Yale, and Penn. I am a radiation oncologist in the Seattle area. You may find me regularly posting at www.newcancerinfo.com