Physicians with the Mays Cancer Center, home to UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson, praised the May 18 move by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force to lower from 50 to 45 the recommended age to begin screening asymptomatic persons to prevent colorectal cancer. The goal is to identify and remove precancerous benign polyps. Physicians nationwide adhere to the panel’s guidelines.

Alicia Logue, MD, sits down to explain the surgical options for colorectal cancer.

Colorectal cancer begins in the colon or rectum and typically develops slowly over several years, starting as small, noncancerous growths called