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VIDEO: New serrated polyp findings important for timing surveillance colonoscopy
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ORLANDO — In this exclusive video from the World Congress of Gastroenterology at ACG 2017, outgoing ACG president Carol Burke, MD, vice chair of the department of gastroenterology and hepatology at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, shares her perspective on a study presented at the Presidential Plenary by Joseph C. Anderson, MD, MHCDS, of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.
“What they did find was that individuals who have high-risk adenomas at baseline and high-risk serrated polyps at baseline were at very high risk for having high-risk serrated polyps at follow-up, and I think clinically this is quite important,” Burke told Healio Gastroenterology and Liver Disease. “We need to not only think about the surveillance of individuals with adenomas, but get the evidence to support the surveillance colonoscopy for individuals with serrated polyps.”
You can read our coverage of this study and a transcription of Burke’s perspective here.
Reference:
Anderson JC, et al. Abstract 1. Presented at: World Congress of Gastroenterology at American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting; Oct. 13-18, 2017; Orlando, FL.
Disclosures: Burke reports no relevant financial disclosures.