Colorectal Cancer Alliance: Promoting prevention and early detection with screening navigation and a personalized recommendation via a digital screening quiz tool for colorectal cancer.

Authors

Kim Newcomer

Kim Newcomer

Colorectal Cancer Alliance, Washington, DC

Kim Newcomer , Alex Guevara , Marianne Pearson , Lisa Hall

Organizations

Colorectal Cancer Alliance, Washington, DC, Colorectal Cancer Alliance, Wahington, DC

Research Funding

No funding sources reported

Background: Evaluating the effectiveness of a Colorectal Cancer screening navigation model delivered in a digital platform offered by a patient advocacy organization. Designed as a digital screening quiz tool and live navigation to promote CRC screening, the Colorectal Cancer Alliance’s Screening Quiz is a risk stratification tool that connects respondents to live certified cancer care navigators delivering evidence-based interventions to increase CRC screening, education and patient and family support. The framework utilizes small and mass media, one-on-one education and patient navigation services to help address and reduce barriers to care. Critical interventions which research shows that on-time screening for CRC leads to better outcomes. Methods: The Screening Quiz has been promoted through social sharing, community outreach, media, including influencer campaigns to increase outreach to at-risk communities. Questions assess personal and family history, hereditary syndromes, and demographics to provide a CRC screening recommendation based on current USPSTF guidelines. Respondents overdue for screening who opt in, are triaged to the Alliance’s patient navigation team for follow-up. This interaction includes phone calls and emails for symptomatic individuals or at high risk for CRC, telephonic and email for average-risk uninsured, and emails for average-risk insured. At-risk individuals are connected to resources, such as financial assistance, free at-home screening tests, and colonoscopy scheduling services. Results: July 2022 to August 2023, the Screening Quiz provided over 30,000 screening recommendations. The median age of respondents was 48; 33% of the respondents were between the ages of 45 to 64. Of the respondents, 29% were male and 71% were female. Most were White (74.3%), but nearly half of those who opted into navigation identified as BIPOC, including 14.4% Black/AA, 17.8% Hispanic or Latino, 7.7% Asian, and 2.5% AI/AN. Most respondents were symptomatic (65.5%) but 7.3% were asymptomatic high-risk. These two groups represented 88% of 1,851 respondents triaged to patient navigation. Conclusions: This digital screening tool and live navigation framework may serve as a key solution in driving CRC screening compared to other interventions. Providing access to live navigation, educational resources, and support services for CRC screening and diagnosis.The Alliance is uniquely positioned with its national network of volunteers, partners, and community presence to effectively reach at-risk communities. Aligning with the science of evidence-based interventions, the Alliance will continue to leverage the Screening Quiz in partnership with healthcare and community stakeholders to close Colorectal Cancer screening gaps.

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2024 ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium

Session Type

Poster Session

Session Title

Poster Session C: Cancers of the Colon, Rectum, and Anus

Track

Colorectal Cancer,Anal Cancer

Sub Track

Prevention, Screening, and Hereditary Cancers

Citation

J Clin Oncol 42, 2024 (suppl 3; abstr 71)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2024.42.3_suppl.71

Abstract #

71

Poster Bd #

E14

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