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Endoscopic CRC resection carries recurrence, mortality risks

Will Pass   |   Medical News   |   13 January 2021
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FROM CLINICAL GASTROENTEROLOGY AND HEPATOLOGY

After endoscopic resection, high-risk T1 colorectal cancer (CRC) may have a tenfold greater risk of recurrence than low-risk disease, based on a meta-analysis involving more than 5,000 patients.

These findings support personalized, histologically based surveillance strategies following endoscopic resection of T1 CRC, reported lead author...

          

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