New colorectal screening guidelines include younger patients

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...

Guidelines for colorectal cancer screening and surveillance.

Colorectal cancer screening differential costs for younger versus older Americans.

BACKGROUND Colorectal cancer (CRC) incidence rises with age, and most CRC arises from adenomatous polyps. It was therefore hypothesized that increased use of CRC screening and polypectomy in younger persons might yield CRC-related savings later in life for payers such as Medicare. METHODS Using a decision analytic Markov model, the impact of increased CRC screening uptake on healthcare payers...

New Post - Polypectomy Surveillance Guidelines COLORECTAL

30 BACKGROUND A denomatous polyps are the most common neoplasm found in people who are screened or who have a diagnostic work-up (1–4). Removal of these adenomas reduce the risk for future colorectal cancer and advanced adenomas (5,6). Patients with adenomas usually are placed into a surveillance program of periodic colonoscopy to remove missed synchronous and new metachronous adenomas and canc...