• DOI:10.1053/GAST.2003.50044
Corpus ID: 29354772

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={S. Winawer and R. Fletcher and D. Rex and J. Bond and R. Burt and J. Ferrucci and T. Ganiats and T. Levin and S. Woolf and D. Johnson and L. Kirk and S. Litin and C. Simmang},
  journal={Gastroenterology},
  year={2003},
  volume={124 2},
  pages={
          544-60
        }
}

S. Winawer, R. Fletcher, +10 authors C. Simmang

Published 2003

Medicine

Gastroenterology

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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