This July Fourth, celebrate your freedom from colorectal cancer!!

Ensure that you and your patients adhere to the new screening guidelines.

According to the National Cancer Institute, there will be 106,100 new cases of colon cancer and 40,870 new cases of rectal cancer in 2009, resulting in 49,920 combined deaths. Click here for more information.

The American Cancer Society recommends that men and women at average risk for colorectal cancer undergo a screening test that finds polyps and cancer every 5 years, beginning at age 50. Patients with certain risk factors (such as a personal history of IBD or a family history of colorectal cancer) should be screened earlier and more often. Click here to review the full ACS guidelines.

Evidence surrounding colorectal cancer screening is rated and reviewed in an NCI PDQ here (updated 4/30/2009).

The American Gastroenterological Association also provides an interpretation of the new screening guidelines, written by Lisa Boardman, MD of the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. Click here.

Learn more about Norman Sohn, MD, FACS, MBA and Michael Weinstein, MD, FACS: Somerset Surgical Associates.

• Colonoscopies on Poorly Prepped Patients
• Anal Dilatation in the Tx of Anal Fissure

• Use of Existing Orifices for Laparoscopic Surgery
• Open vs. Laparoscopic Surgery

• Video Endoscopy: A New Look Into The GI Tract (CME)
• Number of available colorectal specialists declines as African American population increases
• Primary tumor resection unnecessary in most metastatic colorectal cancer cases
• Combination treatment often makes liver metastases resectable
• Folate fortification may raise risk of colon cancer
• Cetuximab useful for some patients with unresectable colorectal cancer
• Colorectal cancer risk increased with endometrial cancer
• Adding cetuximab to standard therapy worsens outcomes in colorectal cancer
• Immunochemical fecal blood tests differ widely in performance
• Colonoscopy cuts deaths from left-sided colon cancers only
• Multimodality therapy can cure unresectable colorectal cancer
• Adiponectin gene variant tied to reduced risk of colorectal cancer
• Very low 5-year cancer risk seen after negative screening colonoscopy
• Follow-up care lacking for many older colon cancer survivors
• Surveillance guidelines may miss early cancer in IBD patients
• Colon Cancer Screening in the African-American Population
• Capsule Endoscopy
• Vitamin D and Colorectal Cancer
• Screening for Adenomatous Polyps in Colon Cancer
• Colon Cancer Screening
• Colorectal Cancer Progression
• Aspirin or NSAIDs for Primary Prevention of Colorectal Cancer

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