Client reminders are written or telephone messages advising people that they are due for screening. The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends the use of client reminders to increase screening for breast and cervical cancers. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force also recommends the use of client reminders to increase colorectal cancer screening with fecal occult blood testing. Evidence is insufficient, however, to determine effectiveness of client reminders in increasing colorectal cancer screening with colonoscopy or flexible sigmoidoscopy.

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