Gastroenterology
Volume 136, Issue 3 , Pages 832-841 , March 2009

A Pooled Analysis of Advanced Colorectal Neoplasia Diagnoses After Colonoscopic Polypectomy

  • María Elena Martínez

      Affiliations

    • Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
    • Mel and Enid Zuckerman Arizona College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests Address requests for reprints to: María Elena Martínez, PhD, University of Arizona, Arizona Cancer Center, PO Box 245024, Tucson, Arizona 85724. fax: (520) 626-9275
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  • John A. Baron

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Medicine and Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire
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  • David A. Lieberman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Portland, Oregon
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  • Arthur Schatzkin

      Affiliations

    • Nutritional Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland
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  • Elaine Lanza

      Affiliations

    • Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland
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  • Sidney J. Winawer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Gastroenterology and Nutrition Science, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
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  • Ann G. Zauber

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
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  • Ruiyun Jiang

      Affiliations

    • Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
    • Mel and Enid Zuckerman Arizona College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
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  • Dennis J. Ahnen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Denver, Colorado
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  • John H. Bond

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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  • Timothy R. Church

      Affiliations

    • Division of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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  • Douglas J. Robertson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, White River Junction, Vermont
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  • Stephanie A. Smith–Warner

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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  • Elizabeth T. Jacobs

      Affiliations

    • Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
    • Mel and Enid Zuckerman Arizona College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
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  • David S. Alberts

      Affiliations

    • Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
    • Mel and Enid Zuckerman Arizona College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
    • Department of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
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  • E. Robert Greenberg

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Medicine and Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire
    • Cancer Prevention Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington

Received 8 August 2008 ,Accepted 1 December 2008.

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 Conflicts of interest The authors disclose no conflicts.

 Funding The authors disclose the following: this work was supported by Public Health Service grants CA-41108, CA-23074, CA95060, CA37287, CA104869, CA23108, CA59005, and CA26852 from the National Cancer Institute. Dr Jacobs is supported by a K07 Career Development Award (CA106269) from the National Cancer Institute. Funding for the Veteran's Affairs Study was supported by the Cooperative Studies Program, Department of Veterans Affairs.

PII: S0016-5085(08)02182-3

doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2008.12.007

Gastroenterology
Volume 136, Issue 3 , Pages 832-841 , March 2009

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