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Educating Your Patients
Most patients will not get tested unless their doctors tell them to. With your help, more lives can be saved through colorectal cancer screening.

Get help explaining the importance of colorectal cancer screening and overcoming patient resistance. Call 1-800-ACS-2345 anytime to request the patient materials below—or order online.

Consumer Brochure on Colorectal Cancer Screening
Encourages your patients to talk with you about colorectal cancer screening and provides a list of questions to ask to help facilitate the conversation. Free. (Also available in Spanish by calling 1-800-ACS-2345).
View the brochure online
Order online
 American Cancer Society's Complete Guide to Colorectal Cancer
Arm patients with the information they need. This book offers helpful, matter-of-fact explanations of risk factors and prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment, coping with the disease and its symptoms, and essential information for caregivers. Keep a copy on your shelf. (ACS Sale Price: $16.95, List Price: $19.95)

Sample Reminders for Your Practice
Many patients don’t follow through with scheduling a screening appointment. You can customize the letters and phone scripts below for your own practice to make sure patients take the next vital step in screening.

Letters
Letter to Patient at Average Risk
Letter to Patient at Increased or High Risk

Phone scripts
FOBT Follow-Up Phone Script for Average-Risk Individual
Follow-Up Phone Script for Individual at Increased Risk

Reminder: Fecal occult blood testing should be done on samples collected by the patient at home, not on single samples collected at the time of a rectal exam.


 
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