San Diego—Stool-based post-polypectomy surveillance was predicted to result in a safe reduction in the number of colonoscopies and associated costs, offering a viable alternative to colonoscopy surveillance, in a large modeling study from the Netherlands.
“We showed we can do stool-based surveillance safely. We don’t miss more lesions than with colonoscopy-based surveillance,” said Willemijn de Klaver, MD, a PhD candidate in gastroenterology and hepatology at Amsterdam