By Laura López González
Colorectal cancer cases are rising among younger people, striking even folks without obvious risk factors.
For nearly two decades, UC San Francisco Family Community Medicine Professor Micheal Potter, MD, has worked to make cancer screening easier.
The model has community clinicians offer take-home fecal immunochemical tests (FIT) for colorectal cancer alongside flu shots in a model dubbed FluFIT. Folks who opt for the screeners can collect samples at home before sending them to a lab for tests.
Today, community health centers in all 50 states have used Potter’s model, first developed at UCSF to save lives. Potter tells us how colorectal cancer risk is changing and what to know about screening.
Please review the full story at: https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2024/09/428546/why-your-flu-shot-might-come-colon-cancer-test