Association Colorectal Cancer

In a Healio video exclusive, Mark B. Pochapin, MD, winner of the 2022 Healio Lifetime Disruptor Award, shares his perspective about advances in gastroenterology over the past few decades and how the field will progress in years to come.

SAN DIEGO — Five-year relative survival for early-onset colorectal cancer improved over a 20-year period only among white patients, with no improvements for Black, Asian or Hispanic patients, per data at Digestive Disease Week 2022.

While colorectal adenocarcinoma incidence rates are increasing in white individuals aged 40 to 49 years, they are stabilizing in Black individuals of the same age, according to results published in JAMA Network Open.

The addition of real-time computer-aided detection in colonoscopy significantly increased the adenoma detection rate and adenomas detected per colonoscopy in colorectal cancer screening, according to a presentation at ESGE Days.

In an exclusive video, Healio Gastroenterology spoke with Brian Dooreck, MD, of Gastrointestinal Diagnostic Centers in Pembroke Pines, Fla., about the colorectal cancer provider outreach program, or CRC POP.