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Endoscopic Screening and Surveillance: Indications and Standards

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Endoscopy is the gold standard for detection of early cancer in the gastrointestinal tract; it is approved for gastric cancer screening in Japan and South Korea and for colorectal cancer screening in many countries worldwide. A rationale is the strong reduction in the incidence of colorectal cancer after 10 years’ follow-up of colonoscopic screening with resection of all neoplastic lesions. High-risk groups are subject to different, more frequent endoscopic surveillance programs, which are summarized for esophageal, gastric, and colorectal cancer. The chapter explains the preparation and procedural steps of screening colonoscopy and esophago−/gastroscopy, including benchmark criteria for quality of endoscopy.

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  1. Department of Digestive Diseases, Hôpital Eduard Herriot, Lyon, France

    Thierry Ponchon

  2. Department of Internal Medicine I, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria

    Frieder Berr

  3. Department of Endoscopy, Saku Central Hospital Advanced Care Center, Saku, Nagano, Japan

    Tsuneo Oyama

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  2. Department of Endoscopy, Saku Central Hospital Advanced Care Center, Saku, Nagano, Japan

    Tsuneo Oyama

  3. Department of Digestive Diseases, Hôpital Eduard Herriot, Lyon, France

    Thierry Ponchon

  4. Division of Research and Development for Minimally Invasive Treatment Cancer Center, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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Ponchon, T., Berr, F., Oyama, T. (2019). Endoscopic Screening and Surveillance: Indications and Standards. In: Berr, F., Oyama, T., Ponchon, T., Yahagi, N. (eds) Atlas of Early Neoplasias of the Gastrointestinal Tract. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01114-7_6

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