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Colorectal cancer (CRC) is currently the third ranked cancer in terms of morbidity and mortality in the United States [1]. There were 102,480 new cases in 2013 alone, with 50,830 deaths which affected 9 % of the US population of that same year [1]. CRC affects men and women equally with the probability of developing invasive CRC being roughly 1 in 19 over the average American male’s lifetime and 1 in 21 for females, with 90 % of those cases in both sexes after age 50 [1]. This has significantly changed over the last 25 years with a 30 % decrease in the incidence and mortality from the 1980s due to multiple factors [1]. The highest mortality rates remain among African Americans (49.6 per 100,000) compared to Caucasians (33.1 per 100,000) [1]. The lowest incidence rates are found in the Asian American and Pacific Islander populations (73.5 per 100,000) [1]. The cost of care is also staggering with $14 billion spent in 2010 alone and projected costs to rise 20 % by 2020 [2]. Even with the significant decrease in incidence and death over the last 25 years, the projected increase in cost is 20 % by 2020, and this is without the assumption that an aging population will result in an increase in the number of people over age 50 as the baby boomers age [2].

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Russell, T.C. (2014). Colorectal Cancer. In: Paulman, P., Taylor, R. (eds) Family Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0779-3_99-1

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