5-Minute Clinical Update and Grand Rounds with Dr. Thomas McGinn
5-Minute Clinical Update and Grand Rounds with Dr. Thomas McGinn
CommonSpirit Health Physician Enterprise
5-Minute Check In: Colonoscopy Screenings and Whether They Reduce Cancer Deaths
7 minutes Posted Mar 16, 2023 at 5:00 pm.
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March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. In this episode, Dr. McGinn covers a new trial published in the NEJM looking at whether colonoscopies reduced cancer deaths and discusses the effectiveness of screening options for patients.

Article: https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJM... 

Guests: 
Dr. Nick Jansson
Ambulatory Quality and Population Health Medical Director, Interim AACMO for Primary Care, Women's Health, Pediatrics
Virginia Mason Franciscan Health

Dr. Devi Mukkai-Krishnamurty
Associate Professor of Surgery
Creighton School of Medicine