Risk of Colon Cancer and Recommended Surveillance Strategies in Patients with Ulcerative Colitis.

This article summarizes key strategies for colonoscopic surveillance, the most widely used and evidence-based method of CRC prevention. As currently constituted and practiced, surveillance examinations every 1 to 3 years with lesion detection and removal using high-definition endoscopic systems with or without pancolonic spray-dye chromoendoscopy is the best method for mitigating the development of CRC morbidity and mortality. For patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis with UC, surveillance should begin at the time of diagnosis and colonoscopy should be performed annually. PMID: 33121696 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Clinical Colorectal Cancer - Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Tags: Gastroenterol Clin North Am Source Type: research