Post-Endoscopy Upper GI Cancers, Distal Attachments and Pandemic Colorectal Screenings

In this issue of “Sharma’s Endoscopy Insights,” I review post-endoscopy upper gastrointestinal cancers, evaluate improvement in adenoma detection rate using distal attachments and discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected screening for colorectal cancer.

Although colonoscopy often overshadows upper endoscopy in research and discussions about procedure quality, upper GI cancers can be