Question

A 52-year-old man with no family history of colorectal cancer attends for a routine health check. He has no gastrointestinal symptoms and no history of inflammatory bowel disease. According to the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care, which is the most appropriate colorectal cancer screening strategy for this average-risk patient?

Accepted Answer

Offer stool-based screening with faecal immunochemical test every 2 years from age 50 to 74

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Begin annual colonoscopy starting now and continuing until age 80

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Offer CT colonography every 5 years as first-line screening

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Recommend no screening unless he develops bowel symptoms

Answer

Offer sigmoidoscopy once at age 60 only

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