Surveillance colonoscopy after polypectomy is not a “one size fits all” endeavor. Even so, some clinicians continue to manage patients as if it were, meaning many patients continue to undergo these invasive tests unnecessarily.
A session at the 2021 virtual Digestive Disease Week was devoted to new recommendations for postpolypectomy surveillance by the U.S. Multi-Society Task Force (USMSTF) (Gastroenterology 2020;158[4]:1131). Samir Gupta, MD, the lead author of the recommendations