Recommendations for client- and provider-directed interventions to increase breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening.

This report makes recommendations on the evidence of effectiveness of selected community and health care system interventions to increase breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening rates so that goals of lower cancer mortality set by Healthy People 2010, the nation's prevention agenda, can be more easily achieved. These recommendations represent the work of the independent, nonfederal Task Force on Community Preventive Services. Recommendations in this report address the three primary strategic objectives for increasing cancer screening rates: increasing community demand for cancer screening services, increasing community access to screening services, and increasing screening service delivery by health care providers.