Surveillance Colonoscopy: Time to Dial it Back?

Screening colonoscopy: is it time?

It was time to go back.

I am a pediatric emergency physician in Calgary, Alta, and have been active in international health for more than 25 years. The last time I had been in Africa was in 1985 when I ran a district hospital in Lesotho in southern Africa. My husband and I had always wanted to return to the continent but career, children, and time got in the way. When those factors finally aligned, we were able to onc...

DIAL: A Platform for real-time Laboratory Surveillance

Laboratory information systems fulfill many of the requirements for individual result management within a public health laboratory. However, access to the systems by data users, timely data extraction, integration, and data analysis are difficult tasks. These difficulties are further complicated by often having multiple laboratory results for specific analytes or related analytes per specimen t...

Colonoscopy and colonography: back to the roots.

"Colonoscopy" and "colonography" refer to the endoscopic and radiological examination of the colon respectively. Medical terminology constructs words using original roots from the source languages, which are often Greek or Latin. The word root is the fundamental portion of the term. Multiplication of modern tests and procedures has led to confusion in the application of word roots in medical te...

Screening and Surveillance Colonoscopy

Colorectal cancer is a major cause of worldwide morbidity and mortality. As such, there are many guidelines and recommendations set forth by various medical societ‐ ies regarding colonoscopy for screening and surveillance. The universal goal of these guidelines is to reduce colorectal cancer prevalence and mortality. Recommendations for colorectal cancer screening and surveillance using colonos...