Cancer Control Following Polypectomy

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Colon Cancer

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other; Other U.S. Federal agency; NIH

Identifiers

NCT00591279

81-035

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study evaluates strategies for the surveillance of post-polypectomy patients for the control of bladder cancer

Enrollment: 110 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• referral for colonoscopy or
• referral for proctoscopy or for a complete colonoscopy after a proctoscopy or flexible sigmoidoscopy

Exclusion criteria

• prior history of colon cancer, unrelated polypectomy, inflammatory bowel disease, family history of familial polyposis

Trial design

110 participants in 2 patient groups

A

Description:

Barium enema and colonoscopy at one and three years after entry.

B

Description:

Barium enema and colonoscopy at three years only after entry.