Updated colorectal cancer guidelines recommend shifting resources from surveillance to screening.
In 1995, the U.S. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research assembled an expert panel to prepare clinical guidelines on screening for colorectal neoplasia that were based on the best available evidence. The panel brought together experts in primary care, surgery, radiology, oncology, and gastroenterology, and subsequently published guidelines in 1997 (Gastroenterology 1997; 112:594). Recently, the U.S. Multisociety Task Force on Colorectal Cancer was commissioned to review and revise the guidelines, using new evidence. This group comprises representatives of the American College of Gastroenterology, American Gastroenterological Association, and American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, and American College of Physicians. The task fo…