Society guideline links: Screening for colorectal cancer

Introduction — 

This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Hereditary colorectal cancer syndromes" and "Society guideline links: Colorectal cancer".)

International

●World Gastroenterology Organisation (WGO)/International Digestive Cancer Alliance (IDCA): Practice guidelines for colorectal cancer screening (2007)

Canada

●Choosing Wisely Canada: Avoid colorectal cancer screening tests in asymptomatic patients with a life expectancy of less than 10 years and with no personal or family history of colorectal neoplasia (2024)

●British Columbia Guidelines and Protocols and Advisory Committee (GPAC): Screening for the purposes of colorectal cancer prevention and detection in asymptomatic adults – Part 1 (2022)

●British Columbia GPAC: Follow-up of colorectal cancer and precancerous lesions (polyps) – Part 2 (2022)

●Canadian Association of Gastroenterology (CAG) Banff Consensus: Clinical practice guideline on screening for colorectal cancer in individuals with a family history of nonhereditary colorectal cancer or adenoma (2018)

●Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (CTFPHC): Recommendations on screening for colorectal cancer in primary care (2016)

●Cancer Care Ontario (CCO): Evidence summary on colorectal cancer screening in average risk populations (2015)

●CAG: Position statement on screening individuals at average risk for developing colorectal cancer (2010)

United States

●National Cancer Institute (NCI): Colorectal cancer screening – Health professional version

●American College of Radiology (ACR): ACR Appropriateness Criteria on colorectal cancer screening (2024)

●American College of Physicians (ACP): A guidance statement on screening for colorectal cancer in asymptomatic average-risk adults, version 2 (2023)

●American Gastroenterological Association (AGA): Clinical practice update on risk stratification for colorectal cancer screening and post-polypectomy surveillance – Expert review (2023)

●AGA: Position statements on reducing the burden of colorectal cancer (2022)

●US Multi-Society Task Force (USMSTF) on Colorectal Cancer: Recommendations on age to start and stop colorectal cancer screening, updates (2022)

•USMSTF on Colorectal Cancer: Consensus guideline for colorectal cancer screening − Recommendations for physicians and patients (2017)

●American College of Gastroenterology (ACG): Clinical guidelines on colorectal cancer screening (2021)

●US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF): Final recommendation statement on colorectal cancer – Screening (2021)

●AGA: White paper – Roadmap for the future of colorectal cancer screening in the United States (2020)

●American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO): Resource-stratified guideline on early detection for colorectal cancer (2019)

●American Cancer Society (ACS): Guideline on colorectal cancer screening for average-risk adults, update (2018)

●Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF): Cystic fibrosis colorectal cancer screening consensus recommendations (2018)

United Kingdom

●BMJ Rapid Recommendations: A clinical practice guideline on colorectal cancer screening with faecal immunochemical testing, sigmoidoscopy, or colonoscopy (2019, reviewed 2023)

●Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN): A national clinical guideline for diagnosis and management of colorectal cancer (2011, revised 2016)

Australia–New Zealand

●Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP): Guidelines for preventive activities in general practice – Colorectal cancer,10th edition (2024)

●Cancer Council Australia: Clinical practice guidelines for the prevention, early detection, and management of colorectal cancer (2017, revised 2023)

•Population screening, update (2023)

•Risk and screening based on family history, update (2023)