FRANKFORT The recent change in the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) guidelines to start colorectal cancer (CRC) screening at age 45 gives us an
By federal law, colorectal cancer (CRC) screening is a zero-cost sharing service for patients as defined in The Affordable Care Act (ACA). The purpose of
KENTUCKY Our Commonwealth of Kentucky, as well as the rest of the nation, has under-gone an amazing amount of change and adversity due to COVID-19.
“We spend a lot of money on healthcare and health insurance. The problem is, we’re not spending enough on prevention.”— Whitney Jones, MD LOUISVILLE In
LOUISVILLE From the first moment that Wayne Tuckson, MD, colorectal surgeon at KentuckyOne Health Colorectal Surgery Associates in Louisville, speaks, it is clear that he
LEXINGTON A University of Kentucky study published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons shows a direct link between the adoption of the
LOUISVILLE Back in the early 1990s, when there was no such thing as colon cancer screening, Martin Mark, MD, was lobbying to make the procedure
LEXINGTON There’s a lot to be said for shortening hospital stays. Besides the obvious reduction in expense, there are other significant benefits to patients, even
LEXINGTON If the first image that comes to mind when you hear the term genetic counselor is a person who studies and counsels the family
Some day in the future, when University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center (Markey) Director Mark Evers, MD, reflects on his time leading the UK institution,
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