Screening exam in which fiberoptic tube is passed throughout the entire colon
What is Colonoscopy?
This risk factor can increase your potential to develop colon cancer up to 3 times the average.
What is (immediate) family history of polyps or cancer?
Two genetic disorders that predispose to a high lifetime risk of colorectal cancer
What are Lynch Syndrome and FAP
Frequency of FIT-DNA test to screen for colon cancer
What is 1-3 years
Because the last colonoscopy showed 3 small adenomatous polyps (<1 cm), the next colonoscopy should be performed at
What is 3 years?
What are FIT (cologuard), colonoscopy, sigmoidoscopy, colonography?
Four modifiable colorectal cancer risk factors
What are smoking, excessive alcohol use, sedentary lifestyle/obesity, and diet
Bacteremia and endocarditis associated with what organism
S. bovis
Bacteremia and endocarditis associated with this organism are a clue to underlying colorectal carcinoma
What is age 75?
What is definitive treatment for cancerous polyps
What is partial colectomy/surgical resection.
Depending on cancer location and stage/progression, additional treatment options may include adjuvant chemotherapy, neoadjuvant chemotherapy, chemoradiation, and targeted therapies
Screening exam in which there is radiologic exam of the entire colon, with high sensitivity for polyps >6mm
What is CT colonography?
While colon and rectal cancer can occur in anyone, these races have been shown to have the highest risk for the disease
What is African American, Native American, and Alaskan Native?
Age that pts with IBD should start screening for CRC
What is 8 years after diagnosis
ACG recommendations on how to take colonoscopy prep to increase detection rate
Half prep evening before, half prep day of scope starting ~5 hours before
Because the last colonoscopy showed a small hyperplastic polyp (< 5 mm), the next colonoscopy should be performed at
What is 10 years?
Colorectal cancer screening age starts at
What is 45 years of age
Things in the Standard American Diet that increases risk of CRC (aka why incidence of CRC in 20-30yo is rising). Name up to 3.
- diet high in red meat, processed meat
- diet low in fruit, vegetables, fiber, and dairy
Surgeries that should be offered to women with Lynch syndrome mutations
What is total hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy? Most common cancer in Lynch Syndrome is endometrial cancer
Age that patients with familial adenomatous polyps should start CRC Screening
What is age 10-12 years
If a patient has a first degree relative (FDR) with CRC/adenomas >60years or 2 SDRs with CRC, what is the screening recommendation?
What is routine colonoscopy every 10 years, starting at age 40?
Number of years between colonoscopies if someone has average risk for colon cancer and had a normal first colonoscopy.
What is 10 years?
Because... the amount of time it takes for a <1cm polyp to develop into an invasive cancer is ~10 years
____ is one of the most important risk factors for colorectal cancer
What is Age?
Incidence rates increase with age and nearly 94% of new cases of colorectal cancer occurr in adults 45 years or older
Polyps syndrome with mucocutaneus pigmentations on lips
What is Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome?
Screening tests and their respective intervals (colonoscopy, CT colonography, Flex sig, and flex sig with FIT)
screening tests and intervals are as follows:
Colonoscopy, every 10 years
Computed tomographic (CT) colonography, every 5 years
Flexible sigmoidoscopy, every 5 years
Flexible sigmoidoscopy with FIT; sigmoidoscopy every 10 years, with FIT every year
Because the last colonoscopy showed a moderate hyperplastic polyp (5-10 mm), the next colonoscopy should be performed at
What is 5 years?