Gastroenterology
Volume 130, Issue 6 , Pages 1872-1885 , May 2006

Guidelines for Colonoscopy Surveillance After Polypectomy: A Consensus Update by the US Multi-Society Task Force on Colorectal Cancer and the American Cancer Society

  • Sidney J. Winawer

      Affiliations

    • Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress requests for reprints to: Sidney J. Winawer, MD, Gastroenterology and Nutrition Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10021. fax: (212) 639-2766
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  • Ann G. Zauber

      Affiliations

    • Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA
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  • Robert H. Fletcher

      Affiliations

    • Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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  • Jonathon S. Stillman

      Affiliations

    • Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA
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  • Michael J. O’Brien

      Affiliations

    • Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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  • Bernard Levin

      Affiliations

    • University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
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  • Robert A. Smith

      Affiliations

    • American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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  • David A. Lieberman

      Affiliations

    • Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA
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  • Randall W. Burt

      Affiliations

    • Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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  • Theodore R. Levin

      Affiliations

    • Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Walnut Creek, California, USA
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  • John H. Bond

      Affiliations

    • University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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  • Durado Brooks

      Affiliations

    • American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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  • Tim Byers

      Affiliations

    • University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado, USA
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  • Neil Hyman

      Affiliations

    • University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA
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  • Lynne Kirk

      Affiliations

    • University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
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  • Alan Thorson

      Affiliations

    • Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
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  • Clifford Simmang

      Affiliations

    • University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
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  • David Johnson

      Affiliations

    • Eastern Virginia School of Medicine, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
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  • Douglas K. Rex

      Affiliations

    • Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

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 This article is being published jointly in 2006 in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians (online: May 30, 2006; print: May/June 2006) and Gastroenterology (online: May 2006; print: May 2006) by the American Cancer Society and the American Gastroenterology Association. ©2006 American Cancer Society, Inc. and American Gastroenterology Association, Inc. Copying with attribution allowed for any noncommercial use of the work.

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doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2006.03.012

Gastroenterology
Volume 130, Issue 6 , Pages 1872-1885 , May 2006

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