Screening for colorectal cancer in personnel of an academic medical center.

The colorectal cancer (CRC) screening program in Israel offers the average-risk population fecal occult blood tests from the age of 50 years. Compliance, however, is very low, reaching only 6% of eligible persons in 2005. Our aim in this study was to describe the results of an improved CRC screening program directed at the in-house staff of Beilinson Hospital.