Summary: For so long, colorectal cancer screening beginning at age 50 has been gospel in preventative medicine. But recently, trends in the incidence of colorectal cancer suggest we may be doing to much screening in the wrong people, and not enough screening in the right people. This means missed diagnoses and unnecessary interventions. Recent research offers an alternative that we hope will target screening for the right people, while the rest of us get to avoid the "scope."
