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Colorectal Cancer Awareness

Healio spoke with experts in colorectal cancer about screening options, as well as challenges in diagnoses and areas of unmet need.
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  • Ugo Iroku, MD, MHS
  • Folasade P. May, MD, PhD, MPhil
  • Deborah A. Fisher, MD, MHS
  • Mark H. O'Hara, MD

    • Mark H. O'Hara, MD

    In this video, Mark H. O'Hara, MD, assistant professor of medicine in the division of hematology and oncology, Abramson Caner Center, University of Pennsylvania, discusses:

    • deciding the right treatment approach for patients with CRC;
    • the rising incidence of CRC in patients younger than 50 years;
    • when to refer a patient with CRC for further genetic counseling;
    • the potential role of CAR T-cell therapy in CRC; and
    • unmet needs in managing CRC, such as addressing why many patients with colon cancer do not respond to immunotherapy.

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    colorectal cancer
    colonoscopy
    cancer screening