Adenoma surveillance and colorectal cancer incidence: a retrospective, multicentre, cohort study

The Lancet Oncology
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1470-2045(17)30187-0
Published: 27 April 2017

Prof Wendy Atkin, Kate Wooldrage, MSc, Amy Brenner, MSc, Jessica Martin, MSc, Urvi Shah, MSc, Sajith Perera, MSc, Fiona Lucas, PhD, Jeremy P Brown, MSc, Ines Kralj-Hans, PhD, Paul Greliak, BA, Kevin Pack, BSc, Jill Wood, MPH, Ann Thomson, MSc, Andrew Veitch, MD, Prof Stephen W Duffy, MSc, Amanda J Cross, PhD

Background: Removal of adenomas reduces colorectal cancer incidence and mortality; however, the benefit of surveillance colonoscopy on colorectal cancer risk remains unclear. We examined heterogeneity in colorectal cancer incidence in intermediate-risk patients and the effect of surveillance on colorectal cancer incidence.

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