Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States each year.
Approximately one million veterans aged 50 and older will develop colorectal cancer over the remainder of their lives and nearly 433,000 will die from it. Because most cancers are diagnosed after local or regional spread, nearly half of all patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer will die. Interventions directed at these factors could lead to a decreased mortality among veterans. Family history, occupation, general health status, and sociodemographic factors such as income, access to care and health seeking behavior, diagnostic delay, and history of screening will also be examined. Logistic regression will be performed in order to simultaneously control for potential confounding factors.