Presentations - OMED Colorectal Cancer Screening Meeting, 2007

OMED Colorectal Cancer Screening Meeting, Washington, May 2007

If you missed the 2007 meeting of the Colorectal Cancer Screening Committee, you can view and download PDF files of the presentations here:

Evaluation of recent advances in screening methodologies

• Recommended endpoints and their value. Various ways to evaluate new tests and some key issues
  G. Young:» Presentation( PDF, 217kB )

Evaluating New Screening Technologies – examples in practice

• Improvements in Faecal molecular tests
  S. Itzkowitz:» Presentation( PDF, 70kB )
• FIT or GFOBT; an update on sampling and quantification
  G. Young:» Presentation( PDF, 282kB )

Flexible Sigmoidoscopy and CT Colonography

• Lesion size as the basis for a screening algorithm – the CONS
  R. Schoen:» Presentation( PDF, 71kB )
• Technical advances with screening colonoscopy
  J. Sung:» Presentation( PDF, 2MB )
• Autofluorescence imaging videoendoscopy – prospective study
  T. Matsuda:» Presentation( PDF, 168kB )

Improving population uptake of screening

• Behavioural strategies
  R. Myers:» Presentation( PDF, 236kB )
• Engaging minority groups
  T. Byers/D. Ahnen:» Presentation( PDF, 297kB )
• Uptake of mailed FIT when case-finding fails
  D. Salmon:» Presentation( PDF, 69kB )

The logistics of screening

• Canadian program – a model for resourcing colonoscopy
  L. Rabeneck:» Presentation( PDF, 372kB )