Quality assurance of colonoscopy within the Dutch national colorectal cancer screening program

Colorectal cancer (CRC) screening is capable of reducing CRC-related morbidity and mortality. Colonoscopy is the reference standard to detect CRC, also providing the opportunity to detect and resect its precursor lesions; colorectal polyps. Therefore, colonoscopy is either used as a primary screening tool or as a subsequent procedure after a positive triage test in screening programs based on non-invasive stool testing or sigmoidoscopy. However, in both settings, colonoscopy is not fully protective for the occurrence of post-colonoscopy CRCs (PCCRCs).

Source: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy - September 18, 2018 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Maxime E.S. Bronzwaer, Annekatrien C.T.M. Depla, Niels van Lelyveld, Marcel B.W. Spanier, Yvonne H. Oosterhout, Monique E. van Leerdam, Manon C.W. Spaander, Evelien Dekker, Dutch Colonoscopy Quality Assurance working group, M. van Haastert, J.J. Keller, A Source Type: research