Guidelines for colorectal cancer screening in high risk groups

Guidelines for colorectal cancer screening in high risk groups.

The British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) and the Association of Coloproctology for Great Britain and Ireland (ACPGBI) commissioned these guidelines. The aim is to provide guidance on the appropriateness, method, and frequency of screening people with diseases known to be associated with colorectal cancer. There is increasing awareness among relatives of patients with colorectal cancer that...

Guidelines for colorectal cancer screening and surveillance in moderate and high risk groups (update from 2002).

The British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) and the Association of Coloproctology for Great Britain and Ireland (ACPGBI) commissioned this update of the 2002 guidance. The aim, as before, is to provide guidance on the appropriateness, method and frequency of screening for people at moderate and high risk from colorectal cancer. This guidance provides some new recommendations for those with in...

Guidelines for colorectal cancer screening and surveillance.

Updated Canadian colorectal cancer screening guidelines.

www.thelancet.com/oncology Published online February 25, 2016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1470-2045(16)00139-X 1 Updated Canadian guidelines recommend that low-risk adults aged 50 to 74 years should be screened for colorectal cancer with faecal occult blood testing (FOBT) or faecal immunochemical testing (FIT) every 2 years, or fl exible sigmoidoscopy every 10 years, rather than colonoscopy. The...

Colorectal cancer. Summary of Canadian screening guidelines.

T full version of the Canadian colorectal cancer screening guidelines has been published in the Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology.1 The guidelines were prepared collaboratively by the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology (CAG), the Canadian Digestive Health Foundation (CDHF), and the Canadian Society of Primary Care Gastroenterology (CanGut). The technical report of Health Canada’s Natio...