{"id":4845,"date":"2020-03-20T11:00:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T15:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=4845"},"modified":"2020-03-20T11:00:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T15:00:42","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-adults-aged-50-75-years-who-met-colorectal-cancer-crc-screening-recommendations-national-health-interview-survey-united-states-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2020\/03\/20\/4845\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Aged 50\u201375 Years Who Met Colorectal Cancer (CRC) Screening Recommendations \u2014 National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6911a7.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/figures\/mm6911a7-F.gif\" width=\"449\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>March is Colorectal Awareness Month. 67% of U.S. adults aged 50\u201375 years met the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendations for colorectal cancer screening. Most persons (60.6%) had a colonoscopy in the past 10 years. Cancer screening leads to early detection, and early detection saves lives.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> National Health Interview Survey, 2018. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6911a7.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6911a7.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March is Colorectal Awareness Month. 67% of U.S. adults aged 50\u201375 years met the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendations for colorectal cancer screening. Most persons (60.6%) had a colonoscopy in the past 10 years. Cancer screening leads to early detection, and early detection saves lives. Source: National Health Interview Survey, 2018. https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm. https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6911a7.htm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10559,63673,53746],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}