Risk of Advanced Neoplasia in First-Degree Relatives with Colorectal Cancer: A Large Multicenter Cross-Sectional Study

Enrique Quintero, Marta Carrillo, Maria-Liz Leoz, Joaquin Cubiella, Carla Gargallo, Angel Lanas, Luis Bujanda, Antonio Z Gimeno-García, Manuel Hernández-Guerra, David Nicolás-Pérez, Inmaculada Alonso-Abreu, Juan Diego Morillas, Francesc Balaguer, Alfonso Muriel and on behalf of the Oncology Group of the Asociación Española de Gastroenterología (AEG)

PLOS Medicine, 2016, vol. 13, issue 5, 1-18

Abstract: Background: First-degree relatives (FDR) of patients with colorectal cancer have a higher risk of developing colorectal cancer than the general population. For this reason, screening guidelines recommend colonoscopy every 5 or 10 y, starting at the age of 40, depending on whether colorectal cancer in the index-case is diagnosed at

Date: 2016
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