Yes, You Can! — Improve Your ADR and Reduce Your Patient's Colorectal Cancer Risk (So Why Are You Waiting?)

The adenoma detection rate (ADR) is the percentage of patients aged ≥50 years undergoing screening colonoscopy who have one or more conventional adenomas detected. ADR is a validated quality measure for colonoscopy. In the current prospective study, researchers in Poland assessed whether ADR improvement reduces colorectal cancer (CRC) incidence and death.

ADR at baseline was divided into quintiles of ≤11.21%, 11.22–15.10%, 15.11–19.17%, 19.18–24.56%, and >24.56%. Improvement in ADR during the study period was defined as maintaining the highest quintile or advancing one quintile.

During a 6-year median follow-up of 146,860 patients, interval cancer (occurring after the screening colonoscopy and before the next scheduled colonoscopy) occurred i…