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Spotlight on noninvasive CRC screening

The American Gastroenterological Association released a clinical practice update on using noninvasive colorectal cancer (CRC) screening options, and recent studies focused on fecal immunochemical test screening programs.
https://gastroenterology.acponline.org/archives/2022/02/25/5.htm
25 Feb 2022

AGA issues guidance on drug treatment for patients with IBS

Two new clinical practice guidelines from the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) provide recommendations on the use of medications to treat irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) with constipation and IBS with diarrhea.
https://gastroenterology.acponline.org/archives/2022/06/24/1.htm
24 Jun 2022

MKSAP Quiz: Sudden-onset abdominal pain followed by bright red rectal bleeding

This month's quiz asks readers to determine the most likely diagnosis for a 68-year-old woman evaluated in the ED for sudden-onset, crampy, left-lower-quadrant abdominal pain followed several hours later by passage of bright red blood per rectum.
https://gastroenterology.acponline.org/archives/2022/07/22/4.htm
22 Jul 2022

MKSAP Quiz: Evaluation of small-bowel bleeding

This month's quiz asks readers to determine the most appropriate diagnostic test to perform next in a 55-year-old patient with iron deficiency anemia after an upper endoscopy and a colonoscopy did not find the source of suspected small-bowel bleeding.
https://gastroenterology.acponline.org/archives/2021/09/24/4.htm
24 Sep 2021

MKSAP Quiz: A 9-month history of pain, opioids

This month's quiz asks readers to determine the most appropriate management for a patient who has a 9-month history of abdominal pain that has increased with oxycodone use after surgery.
https://gastroenterology.acponline.org/archives/2021/11/19/4.htm
19 Nov 2021

Colorectal cancer risk higher after incomplete polyp resection

A follow-up analysis of patients who had a 5- to 20-mm neoplastic polyp resected found significantly greater risk of advanced neoplasia on their next colonoscopy if the resection was incomplete.
https://gastroenterology.acponline.org/archives/2021/08/27/6.htm
27 Aug 2021

Spotlight on COVID-19 and GI cancers

Recent international studies found that the COVID-19 pandemic may be associated with fewer new diagnoses of gastric cancer and colorectal cancer (CRC), as well as increased tumor burden in patients with newly diagnosed metastatic CRC.
https://gastroenterology.acponline.org/archives/2021/09/24/5.htm
24 Sep 2021

Pandemic may have led to later presentation of colorectal, breast cancers

A single-center study in California found that more patients presented with stage I disease and fewer presented with stage IV disease in 2019 versus 2020, but the changes were statistically significant only for breast cancer.
https://gastroenterology.acponline.org/archives/2022/02/25/3.htm
25 Feb 2022

Keeping tabs: Spotlight on colorectal cancer screening intervals

One recent study looked at screening based on age and family history, while another looked at the effectiveness of fecal immunochemical testing with and without postpolypectomy surveillance colonoscopy.
https://gastroenterology.acponline.org/archives/2017/10/27/3.htm
27 Oct 2017

Flexible sigmoidoscopy associated with long-term reduction in colorectal cancer incidence, mortality

Colorectal cancer incidence and mortality were reduced by about 20% in patients who were randomized to receive once-only flexible sigmoidoscopy screening between the ages of 55 to 64 years instead of usual care.
https://gastroenterology.acponline.org/archives/2021/11/19/6.htm
19 Nov 2021

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