Reducing the number of surveillance colonoscopies with faecal immunochemical tests

Reducing the number of surveillance colonoscopies with faecal immunochemical tests

[...]the decision to omit or postpone colonoscopy should be based not simply on a negative qualitative result but on the actual faecal haemoglobin concentration. Incidence of advanced neoplasia (advanced adenoma or colorectal cancer) at subsequent surveillance colonoscopy following a faecal immunoch...

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Veröffentlicht in:Gut 2020-04, Vol.69 (4), p.784-785
Hauptverfasser: Symonds, Erin L, Cornthwaite, Kathryn, Fraser, Robert J L, Bampton, Peter, Cock, Charles, Young, Graeme P
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Accuracy
Adenoma
Colonoscopy
colorectal adenomas
Colorectal cancer
colorectal cancer screening
Colorectal carcinoma
Cost analysis
Cost control
Feces
Gastroenterology
Hemoglobin
PostScript
Surveillance
Tumors
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Zusammenfassung:[...]the decision to omit or postpone colonoscopy should be based not simply on a negative qualitative result but on the actual faecal haemoglobin concentration. Incidence of advanced neoplasia (advanced adenoma or colorectal cancer) at subsequent surveillance colonoscopy following a faecal immunochemical test (FIT) haemoglobin concentration of 0 [micro]g Hb/g faeces (n=1539) and 10-19 [micro]g Hb/g faeces (n=352). *P
ISSN:0017-5749
1468-3288
DOI:10.1136/gutjnl-2019-318370