Capítulo de livro Acesso aberto

Post-Polypectomy Colonoscopy Surveillance

2011; Linguagem: Inglês

10.5772/19276

Autores

Sung Hoon Noh,

Tópico(s)

Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments

Resumo

Colonoscopy 98(hazard ratio: 0.77, 95% CI: 0.70-0.84)and mortality was reduced by 31% (hazard ratio: 0.69, CI: 0.59-0.82).On the per-protocol analyses, after adjusting for a self-selection bias for the patients who underwent sigmoidoscopy, the incidence of colorectal cancer in the people attending the screening was reduced by 33% (hazard ratio: 0.67, CI: 0.60-0.76)and the mortality was reduced by 43% (hazard ratio: 0.57, CI: 0.45-0.72).The relative colorectal cancer risk after polypectomy in all the previously published studies has ranged from 0.2 (range: 0.1-0.6) in the National Polyp Study to 1.3 (range: 0.6-2.3

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