• Medicine
• Published in Gastroenterology 2003
• DOI:10.1053/gast.2003.50044

Colorectal cancer screening and surveillance: clinical guidelines and rationale-Update based on new evidence.

@article{Winawer2003ColorectalCS,
  title={Colorectal cancer screening and surveillance: clinical guidelines and rationale-Update based on new evidence.},
  author={Sidney J. Winawer and Robert E. Fletcher and Douglas K. Rex and John H. Bond and Randall W. Burt and Joseph T. Jr. Ferrucci and Theodore G Ganiats and Theodore R Levin and Steven Woolf and David Alan Johnson and Lynne M Kirk and Scott Litin and Clifford L. Simmang},
  journal={Gastroenterology},
  year={2003},
  volume={124 2},
  pages={
          544-60
        }
}

• Sidney J. Winawer, Robert E. Fletcher, +10 authors Clifford L. Simmang

We have updated guidelines for screening for colorectal cancer. The original guidelines were prepared by a panel convened by the U.S. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research and published in 1997 under the sponsorship of a consortium of gastroenterology societies. Since then, much has changed, both in the research rature and in the clinical context. The present report summarizes new developments in this field and suggests how they should change practice. As with the previous version, these… CONTINUE READING

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