Colonoscopy for Colorectal Cancer Screening

Colonoscopy for Colorectal Cancer Screening

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Many, if not most, cases arise from premalignant lesions (adenomas) which may be identified and removed prior to becoming frankly malignant. For over a decade, colonoscopy has been the preferred modality for both CRC screening and prevention in the US. Early reports suggested that colonoscopic screening im...

Use of colonoscopy for colorectal cancer screening.

Assessment of quality in screening colonoscopy for colorectal cancer

INTRODUCTION The effectiveness of screening colonoscopy in decreasing the incidence of colorectal cancer (CRC) is largely dependent on the detection of polyps and the quality of the procedure. Several key quality measures have been proposed to improve the effectiveness of screening colonoscopies. AIM To evaluate quality indicators of screening colonoscopy in a tertiary hospital. METHODS All...

Colonoscopy in colorectal-cancer screening for detection of advanced neoplasia.

BACKGROUND Recommendations for colorectal-cancer screening are based solely on age and family history of cancer, not sex. METHODS We performed a cross-sectional analysis of the data from a large colonoscopy-based screening program that included 50,148 participants who were 40 to 66 years of age. People 40 to 49 years of age were eligible only if they had a family history of cancer of any type...

Re: Alternatives to colonoscopy for population-wide colorectal cancer screening.

Colorectal cancer is one of the top three cancers in the world in terms of incidence. Colonoscopy, which many regard as the gold standard in diagnosis of colonic polyps and neoplasm, is costly, invasive and labour-intensive, and deemed an unsuitable population-wide index screening tool. Alternative modalities, including guaiac and immunohistochemical faecal occult blood tests, computed tomograp...