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SUBMITTER: Lee SH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3363129 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lee Suck-Ho SH Shin Sung Jae SJ Park Dong Il DI Kim Seong-Eun SE Jeon Hae Jeong HJ Kim Se Hyung SH Hong Sung Pil SP Hong Sung Noh SN Yang Dong-Hoon DH Lee Bo In BI Kim Young-Ho YH Kim Hyun-Soo HS Kim Hyun Jung HJ Yang Suk-Kyun SK Kim Hyo Jong HJ
Clinical endoscopy 20120331 1
There is indirect evidence to suggest that 80% of colorectal cancers (CRC) develop from adenomatous polyps and that, on average, it takes 10 years for a small polyp to transform into invasive CRC. In multiple cohort studies, colonoscopic polypectomy has been shown to significantly reduce the expected incidence of CRC by 76% to 90%. Colonoscopic polypectomy is performed frequently in primary outpatient clinics and secondary and tertiary medical centers in Korea. However, there are no evidence-bas ...[more]