Personalisation of colorectal cancer screening
Menée sur 243 adultes asymptomatiques inclus dans un programme de dépistage du cancer colorectal et présentant de petits polypes colorectaux (âge moyen : 57,4 ans ; taille des polypes : 6 à 9 mm), cette étude longitudinale multicentrique évalue l'intérêt de mesurer, au moyen d'une coloscopie virtuelle tomodensitométrique, le taux de croissance volumétrique de ces lésions pour identifier celles qui nécessitent une polypectomie
Incidence of colorectal cancer and associated mortality has decreased in the past 25 years in North America. Although several factors will have contributed to this decrease in disease burden, screening programmes have probably had a notable role through removal of precancerous polyps and detection of early stage cancers.
Several screening techniques for colorectal cancer are available, with colonoscopy the dominant method in the USA. The premise of endoscopic screening is that early detection ...
The Lancet Oncology , commentaire, 2012