New endoscopy devices to improve population adherence to colorectal cancer prevention programs
New endoscopy devices to improve population adherence to colorectal cancer prevention programs作者机构:Hepatogastroenterology Unit2nd Department of Internal Medicine-PropaedeuticAttikon University General HospitalUniversity of AthensAthens 12462Greece Wilfried Veltzke-SchliekerCentral Interdisciplinary Endoscopy UnitDepartment of GastroenterologyHepatology and Metabolic DiseasesCharite University HospitalsCampus Virchow ClinicBerlin 13353Germany
出 版 物:《World Journal of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy》 (世界胃肠内镜杂志(英文版)(电子版))
年 卷 期:2010年第2卷第7期
页 面:244-251页
学科分类:1002[医学-临床医学] 100214[医学-肿瘤学] 10[医学]
主 题:New colonoscopes Colonoscopy Colorectal cancer screening Technology
摘 要:Despite recent advances in medicine,colorectal cancer (CRC)remains one of the greatest hazards for public health worldwide and especially the industrialized *** has been well documented with concrete data that regular screening colonoscopy aimed at early detection of precancerous polyps can help decrease the incidence of ***,the adherence of the general population to such screening programs has been shown to be lower than that expected,thus allowing CRC to remain a major threat for public *** reasons have been suggested to explain the disappointing compliance of the population to CRC screening programs,some of them associated with colonoscopy per se,which is viewed by many people as an unpleasant ***,medical societies,individual gastroenterologists,as well as the medical industry are working in order to improve endoscopic devices and/or to improve standard *** aim is to improve the acceptance of the population for this method of CRC screening,by providing a painless and reliable examination of the *** review focuses on some of the latest improve-me-nts in this fie-ld.