Screening Demonstration Program

In 2005, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established five new colorectal cancer screening demonstration programs to provide screening and diagnostic services to U.S. adults aged 50 years and older. Five program sites were selected to participate in this 3-year program. Each site is focusing efforts on screening low-income men and women who have inadequate or no health insurance coverage for colorectal cancer screening. The program sites also provide diagnostic follow-up; conduct public education and outreach; have established standards, systems, policies, and procedures; develop and maintain partnerships; collect and track data; and evaluate the effectiveness of the demonstration program.

The demonstration program sites are:

• Baltimore City Colon Cancer Screening Program (Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene)
• Missouri Screen for Life (Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services)
• Nebraska Colon Cancer Screening Program (Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services)
• Project SCOPE (Stony Brook University Medical Center/SUNY, New York)
• Washington Colon Health Program (Public Health - Seattle and King County, Seattle, WA)

The April 2008 issue of Preventing Chronic Disease contains four studies that detail the process and cost to design CDC's Colorectal Cancer Screening Demonstration Program:

• "Start-Up of the Colorectal Cancer Screening Demonstration Program"
• "Facilitators and Challenges to Start-Up of the Colorectal Cancer Screening Demonstration Program"
• "Cost of Starting Colorectal Cancer Screening Programs: Results from Five Federally Funded Demonstration Programs"
• "Development of a Federally Funded Demonstration Colorectal Cancer Screening Program"