Tag: Colonoscopy

Follow-up colonoscopy rates were 43.3 percent within 90 days, 56.1 percent within 360 days of positive stool-based screening test result

Prevalence of advanced neoplasms 40 to 50 percent lower among those who underwent repeated screening ≥10 years after a negative colonoscopy

Significant increase seen in detection of flat adenomas with Paris classification 0 to IIb in patients with Lynch syndrome

Lack of knowledge, decision-making difficulties among factors identified with non-follow-up

Lower screening rates for cervical, breast, and colorectal cancers suggest 'pattern of forgone care,' according to researchers

AIAC group had lower adenoma and polyp detection rates; lower median number of adenomas, polyps detected per colonoscopy

However, no significant difference seen in the risk for death from colorectal cancer for those invited to screening, receiving usual care

ADR of endoscopists inversely associated with the risk for interval postcolonoscopy CRC in FIT-positive individuals

Effective strategies needed for earlier detection and interception of metachronous lesions

For all BMI/sex groups, initiating colonoscopy at 45 years or annual FIT at 40 years is cost-effective at threshold of $100,000/QALY