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WEDNESDAY, Sept. 30, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Many patients with biopsy-confirmed advanced colorectal polyps are unaware of their need for repeat colonoscopy as well as the proper surveillance interval, according to a study recently published in the Journal of Gastroenterology and Digestive Systems<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Evin Rothschild, from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and colleagues identified 249 consecutive patients (aged 40 to 95 years) from relatively affluent communities in South Florida who had biopsy-confirmed advanced colorectal polyps (2013 to 2017). Of these patients, 84 participated in telephone interviews.<\/p>\n
The researchers found that 24 interviewed patients (28.6 percent) were unaware of either the need for a repeat colonoscopy or the proper surveillance interval. Specifically, 14 patients were unaware of the proper three-year interval to obtain a follow-up surveillance colonoscopy and 10 were not aware that they required a follow-up surveillance colonoscopy.<\/p>\n
“The ability to address the clinical and public health challenges posed by these data would reduce premature and avoidable morbidity and mortality in all their high-risk patients with biopsy proven advanced colorectal polyps from future recurrences as well as the development of colorectal cancer,” the authors write.<\/p>\n
One author disclosed financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry.<\/p>\n
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