Screening for colorectal cancer needs to increase, CDC States

CDC researchers found there is enough capacity in the healthcare system for 80 percent of targeted groups of people to be screened for colorectal cancer -- a goal set in 2014 by the agency; however, people generally are not up-to-date with either a colonoscopy, pictured, or a blood test for the disease. Photo by Robert Przybysz/Shutterstock WASHINGTON, June 22 (UPI) -- Although the U.S. Centers for Disease Control set a goal for 80 percent of people in at-risk groups to be screened for colorectal cancer by 2018, they had not considered until a recent study whether there was capacity in the healthcare system for it to happen.