Is it true that doctors do not recommend using colonoscopy for diagnosing CRC in individuals above the age of 75?

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Ammar Ismail

Untrue, patients above the age of 75 usually presenting with warning signs like weight loss, anemia, change in bowel habits still get diagnostic colonoscopies and can still have colon cancer. it might be true in special occasions when patients are unfit for any procedure or have advanced or terminal illness or refuse to get a colonoscopy so sometimes its a shared decision making.

Juma Almutaani

Due to the competing causes of mortality, the USA CRC screening program recommended that screening should stop at 75 years (Mello et al., 2020; Sninsky et al., 2022).