Colorectal cancer development and advances in screening

K Simon - Clinical interventions in aging, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Most colon tumors develop via a multistep process involving a series of histological,
morphological, and genetic changes that accumulate over time. This has allowed for …

Colonoscopy reduces colorectal cancer incidence and mortality in patients with non-malignant findings: a meta-analysis

J Pan, L Xin, YF Ma, LH Hu, ZS Li - Official journal of the American …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
OBJECTIVES: Observational studies have shown that colonoscopy reduces colorectal
cancer (CRC) incidence and mortality in the general population. We aimed to conduct a …

Colorectal cancer screening: estimated future colonoscopy need and current volume and capacity

DA Joseph, RGS Meester, AG Zauber, DL Manninen… - Cancer, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND In 2014, a national campaign was launched to increase colorectal cancer
(CRC) screening rates in the United States to 80% by 2018; it is unknown whether there is …

Race/ethnicity and adoption of a population health management approach to colorectal cancer screening in a community-based healthcare system

SJ Mehta, CD Jensen, VP Quinn, JE Schottinger… - Journal of general …, 2016 - Springer
Background Screening outreach programs using population health management principles
offer services uniformly to all eligible persons, but racial/ethnic colorectal cancer (CRC) …

Current concepts in the diagnosis and pathobiology of intraepithelial neoplasia: A review by organ system

L Voltaggio, A Cimino‐Mathews… - CA: a cancer journal …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Answer questions and earn CME/CNE In this report, a team of surgical pathologists has
provided a review of intraepithelial neoplasia in a host of (but not all) anatomic sites of …

Use of NCCN guidelines, other guidelines, and biomarkers for colorectal cancer screening

CD Williams, WM Grady, LL Zullig - Journal of the National …, 2016 - jnccn.org
Colorectal cancer (CRC) remains a common cancer and significant public health burden.
CRC-related mortality is declining, partly due to the early detection of CRC through robust …

Colorectal cancer health disparities and the role of US law and health policy

CA Doubeni, DA Corley, AG Zauber - Gastroenterology, 2016 - gastrojournal.org
Health disparities are ubiqui-tous, but could be eliminated for preventable conditions by
ensuring equitable access to and use of disease prevention, detection, and treatment …

Spatial and temporal variations of screening for breast and colorectal cancer in the United States, 2008 to 2012

X Feng, X Tan, EO Alenzi, P Rai, J Chang - Medicine, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Spatial and temporal variations of screening for breast and... : Medicine Spatial and temporal
variations of screening for breast and colorectal cancer in the United States, 2008 to 2012 …

“It is just another test they want to do”: Patient and caregiver understanding of the colonoscopy procedure

EC King-Marshall, N Mueller, A Dailey… - Patient education and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Objective Colonoscopy is a complex procedure that requires bowel preparation, sedation,
and has the potential for substantial risk. Given this, we investigated colonoscopy patients' …

Calcium/magnesium intake ratio, but not magnesium intake, interacts with genetic polymorphism in relation to colorectal neoplasia in a two‐phase study

X Zhu, MJ Shrubsole, RM Ness… - Molecular …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Some studies suggest that the calcium to magnesium ratio intakes modify the associations of
calcium or magnesium with risk of colorectal adenoma, adenoma recurrence, and cancer …