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ACS NCCRT Blue Star Conversation – September 11, 2023

This Blue Star Conversation features a brief presentation by Daniel Reuland, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine; and Program Director, Carolina Cancer Screening Initiative, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, on a recent study: Uptake of colorectal cancer screening after mailed fecal immunochemical test (FIT) outreach in a newly eligible 45-49-year-old community health center population. Speakers will also provide updates on trends in colorectal cancer screening in community health centers and recently released resources to support health center work to increase CRC screening, including the Steps For Increasing Colorectal Cancer Screening Rates: A Manual For Primary Care Practices. This program was hosted by the ACS NCCRT Community Health Center Strategic Priority Team. Afterwards, participants discussed greatest barriers and solutions to increasing CRC screening in the newly eligible population.

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Key Links:

The newly updated NCCRT Steps Guide for Increasing CRC Screening in Primary Care provides evidence-based, expert-endorsed strategies to improve colorectal cancer screening rates in primary care practices. It also includes 10 exemplary primary care practice site case studies, seven of which profile health centers.
The National Association of Chronic Disease Directors’ Mailed FIT Implementation Guide and Mailed FIT Online Course provide a roadmap for how health systems and other health entities can design and carry out mailed fecal immunochemical test (FIT) outreach programs.
National health center UDS CRC screening rate data trends can be found on the NCCRT’s Data & Progress webpage. You can also visit HRSA’s Health Center Program Uniform Data System (UDS) Data webpage to find rates by state and health center system.

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Steps for Increasing Colorectal Cancer Screening Rates: A Manual for Primary Care Practices

Colorectal cancer screening saves lives, yet more than 1 in 3 adults ages 45 and older is not getting screened as recommended.

Through a step-by-step format, this newly updated manual provides evidence-based, expert-endorsed strategies to improve colorectal cancer screening rates in primary care practices. The 2022 edition includes:

An expanded scope to include all primary care settings
Current screening guidelines and new screening modalities
Expert-endorsed strategies
Samples, templates, and tools
Updated literature references
NEW! Added exemplary case studies

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Background and Goals

The first edition, published in 2014, was one of the NCCRT’s most popular resources and has been instrumental in helping primary care practices throughout the United States achieve improvements in their colorectal cancer screening rates.

The goal of this manual is to offer evidence-based, expert-endorsed recommendations for planning and implementing strategies in primary care practices to improve colorectal cancer screening rates. This manual provides a succinct step-by-step guide for primary care teams to improve colorectal cancer screening and outcomes in practice. These simple steps will assist teams to effectively:

Agree on and implement an office screening strategy
Provide education on appropriate and high-quality screening
Help patients to complete timely, recommended screening
Track follow-up of screening and results
Build networks among primary care, specialty care, and health systems
Provide examples of workflows from successful programs

View the NCCRT’s July 25, 2022 Steps Guide update webinar recording and slide set for an introduction to the new edition and testimonials from two primary care clinician champions on how the manual can be used to transform colorectal cancer screening delivery.

Individual Case Studies

To download a document containing all of the case studies, use the orange button above titled, “Download Case Studies Only”. If needed, click the links below to download individual case studies:

Acknowledgement

The NCCRT would like to thank the numerous people who generously offered their time and expertise to the development of this updated second edition.

NCCRT is especially grateful to the advisory committee, who generously offered their time and expertise to develop this guidebook’s research and content, to HealthEfficient for serving as the lead author on this second edition, and to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for their support.

See the Acknowledgements section on page two of the Steps Guide for a comprehensive list of the many contributors.

This publication was supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a financial assistance award totaling $825,000 with 100 percent funded by CDC/HHS. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by CDC/HHS, or the U.S. Government.

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Colorectal cancer screening is one of the best ways to reduce the risk of colorectal cancer. Utilize the strategies in our Steps Guide to help increase screening rates in patients, and reference the newly added Case Studies to see their impact. https://nccrt.org/StepsGuide #80inEveryCommunity

Primary care clinicians’ use of our Steps Guide can help increase colorectal cancer screening rates in patients. We’re excited to include newly added case studies give insight into the effectiveness of strategies, all to meet the goal of #80inEveryCommunity. Read more: https://nccrt.org/StepsGuide

Timely colorectal cancer screening is more important than ever now that major guidelines recommend screening start at age 45. The National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable’s newly updated Steps Guide provides a succinct step-by-step guide for primary care teams to improve colorectal cancer screening and outcomes in practice. https://nccrt.org/StepsGuide

Colorectal cancer screening saves lives. Learn how you can increase screening rates in primary care with the National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable’s newly updated Steps Guide: https://nccrt.org/StepsGuide

The lifetime risk of developing colorectal cancer is about 1 in 24 for men and 1 in 25 for women, yet nearly 1 in 3 adults ages 50 and older is not getting screened as recommended. The National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable’s newly updated Steps Guide is your one-stop-shop for strategies to increase colorectal cancer screening in your practice. Get started now at https://nccrt.org/StepsGuide

Only 72% of adults aged 50 and older are up to date with potentially life-saving colorectal cancer screening. Download the National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable’s newly updated Steps Guide to find evidence-based, expert-endorsed strategies to improve colorectal cancer screening rates. https://nccrt.org/StepsGuide

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The lifetime risk of developing colorectal cancer is about 1 in 24 for men and 1 in 25 for women. The new @NCCRTnews Steps Guide is your one-stop-shop for strategies to increase #CRC screening. https://nccrt.org/StepsGuide #80inEveryCommunity #GetScreened

Colorectal cancer screening saves lives. Learn how you can increase screening rates in your practice with the new @NCCRTnews Steps Guide: https://nccrt.org/StepsGuide #80inEveryCommunity #GetScreened

Major guidelines recommend people at average risk start colorectal cancer screening at age 45. Download the new @NCCRTnews Steps Guide for a succinct step-by-step guide to increase #CRC screening in primary care. https://nccrt.org/StepsGuide #80inEveryCommunity #GetScreened

Only 72% of adults aged 50+ are up to date with potentially life-saving colorectal cancer screening. Download the @NCCRTnews Steps Guide for evidence-based, expert-endorsed recommendations to improve #CRC screening rates. https://nccrt.org/StepsGuide #80inEveryCommunity #GetScreened

Template Newsletter Blurbs

Brief version:

The National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable’s newly released Steps Guide (www.nccrt.org/StepsGuide) provides evidence-based, expert-endorsed strategies to increase colorectal cancer screening rates in primary care. This 2023 edition offers a much-anticipated update to the signature NCCRT resource that has been instrumental in helping primary care practices throughout the United States achieve improvements in delivering potentially life-saving colorectal cancer screening in the communities they serve.

Extended version:

A primary care clinician recommendation is the most powerful influence on a patient’s decision to get screened for cancer. Download the National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable’s 2023 edition of the Steps for Increasing Colorectal Cancer Screening Rates: A Manual for Primary Care Practices (www.nccrt.org/StepsGuide) to find evidence-based, expert-endorsed strategies to improve colorectal cancer screening rates in primary care.

This 2023 version provides a much-anticipated update to the signature NCCRT resource that has been instrumental in helping primary care practices throughout the United States achieve improvements in delivering potentially life-saving colorectal cancer screening in the communities they serve as well as ten exemplary case studies. Timely colorectal cancer screening is more important than ever now that major guidelines recommend screening for people at average risk start at age 45.

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Field Strategies To Increase Colorectal Cancer Screening And Promote Colorectal Cancer Health Equity In Communities Across The US – January 24, 2023

This webinar was a repeat of one of our most highly rated concurrent sessions from the NCCRT 2022 Annual Meeting. The purpose of the webinar was to offer fresh ideas and strategies by learning from three community-facing health systems that are utilizing various tools to establish, implement, and advance colorectal cancer screening interventions that are tailored for the populations they serve.

Speakers:

Moderator: Annie Thibault, Director, Colorectal Cancer Prevention Network
Tiffany Taylor, MBA, FACHE, Ambulatory Administrative Director, Department of Family Medicine, Charleston Area Medical Center
Einas Batarseh, MD, MPH, Chief Resident Internal Medicine/Preventive Medicine – PGY 4, University at Buffalo, the State University of New York
Koosh Desai, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, Curriculum Director, SWGA Campus, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University

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80% in Every Community Employer Challenge Guide

Employers have the ability to help save lives from colorectal cancer by encouraging their employees to get screened for colorectal cancer and reduce their risk of getting the disease.

This comprehensive guide provides the tools, resources and messaging for them to effectively increase timely, quality colorectal cancer screening in their workforce and be a part of the 80% in Every Community campaign.

Whether you work at a corporation, cancer center, health plan, non-profit, etc., you can find resources to help you ensure colorectal cancer screening is a priority in your workplace. It’s never too earlier to start planning your activities for March, National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month!

Just getting started? View the short brief, How Can Employers Save More Lives from Colorectal Cancer?, for an introduction to increasing screening in the workplace.

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Webinar – 2022 NCCRT Steps Guide Update – July 25, 2022

This webinar provided an introduction to the 2022 Steps for Increasing Colorectal Cancer Screening Rates: A Manual for Primary Care Practices, an updated second edition to the first edition that was originally published in 2014. The 2022 edition includes the following updates:

An expanded scope to include all primary care settings
Current screening guidelines and new screening modalities
10 case studies of exemplary practice sites
Updated literature references

The first edition was one of the NCCRT’s most popular resources and has been instrumental in helping primary care practices throughout the United States achieve improvements in their colorectal cancer screening rates. The 2022 edition will be released in August 2022.

Speakers:

Laura Makaroff, DO, Senior Vice President, Prevention and Early Detection, American Cancer Society
Keith Winfrey, MD, MPH, FACP, Chief Medical Officer, New Orleans East Louisiana Community Health Center
Michelle Tropper, MPH, Director of Clinical Programs, HealthEfficient
Frank Colangelo, MD, MS-HQS, FACP, Chief Quality Officer, Premier Medical Associates

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2022 Messaging Guidebook for Black & African American People: Messages to Motivate for Colorectal Cancer Screening

Black and African American people experience disproportionately high incidence and mortality rates from colorectal cancer (CRC), with CRC death rates almost 40% higher than those of white people. While screening is only one element of the work that needs to be done to address these CRC disparities, it is important to promote screening in the best way possible.

The 2022 Messaging Guidebook for Black & African American People: Messages to Motivate for Colorectal Cancer Screening is intended to provide you with information and tools to help you work towards closing disparity gaps by using effective, tailored cancer screening messaging to help motivate people to get screened.