Post-operative colorectal cancer surveillance: preference for optical colonoscopy over computerized tomographic colonography.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Post-operative surveillance strategies for colorectal cancer (CRC) include periodic optical colonoscopy (OC) and abdominal-pelvic CT scan. Adherence with these recommendations is limited. For CRC screening, CT colonography (CTC) identifies larger adenomas and cancers nearly as well as OC. Most screening studies demonstrate that patients prefer CTC. However, CTC has never been compared to OC in the post-operative surveillance setting.

Methods

We hypothesized that CTC might represent an attractive substitute for the standard OC/CT scan combination. Here, 223 patients underwent CTC followed by same day OC 1 year after curative CRC resection.

Results

Of the 144/223 (64.6%) participants with a preference, 65.9% (95/144) preferred OC. This preference was more pronou

SUBMITTER: Weinberg DS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7534185 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature