Society guideline links: Colon polyps

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: Colorectal cancer" and "Society guideline links: Hereditary colorectal cancer syndromes" and "Society guideline links: Screening for colorectal cancer".)

Canada

●British Columbia Medical Association (BCMA): British Columbia guidelines − Follow-up of colorectal cancer and precancerous lesion (polyps) (2022)

●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't perform routine colonoscopic surveillance every year in patients following their colon cancer surgery; instead, frequency should be based on the findings of the prior colonoscopy and corresponding guidelines (2021)

United States

●US Multi-Society Task Force (USMSTF) on Colorectal Cancer: Recommendations on the diagnosis and management of cancer risk in the gastrointestinal hamartomatous polyposis syndromes (2022)

●American Gastroenterological Association (AGA): Clinical practice update on strategies to improve quality of screening and surveillance colonoscopy – Expert review (2021)

●American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE): Guideline on the role of endoscopy in familial adenomatous polyposis syndromes (2020)

●USMSTF on Colorectal Cancer: Recommendations for follow-up after colonoscopy and polypectomy – A consensus update (2020)

●USMSTF on Colorectal Cancer: Recommendations on endoscopic recognition and management strategies for malignant colorectal polyps (2020)

●USMSTF on Colorectal Cancer: Recommendations on endoscopic removal of colorectal lesions (2020)

●American College of Radiology (ACR): ACR Appropriateness Criteria on colorectal cancer screening (2018)

●USMSTF on Colorectal Cancer: Recommendations on colonoscopy surveillance after colorectal cancer resection (2016)

●ASGE: Guideline on bowel preparation before colonoscopy (2015)

●USMSTF on Colorectal Cancer: Recommendations on optimizing adequacy of bowel cleansing for colonoscopy (2014)

●ASGE: Guideline on complications of colonoscopy (2011)

Europe

●European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE): Guideline on post-polypectomy colonoscopy surveillance, update (2020)

●ESGE and European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology (ESGAR): Guideline on imaging alternatives to colonoscopy – CT colonography and colon capsule, update (2020)

●ESGE: Guideline on bowel preparation for colonoscopy, update (2019)

●ESGE: Guideline on endoscopic management of polyposis syndromes (2019)

●ESGE: Clinical guideline on colorectal polypectomy and endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) (2017)

●ESGE and ESGAR: Guideline on clinical indications for computed tomographic colonography (2014)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Clinical guideline on colorectal cancer prevention – Colonoscopic surveillance in adults with ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease or adenomas (2011, updated 2022)

●British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG)/Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland (ACPGBI)/Public Health England (PHE): Post-polypectomy and post-colorectal cancer resection surveillance guidelines (2020)

●BSG: Position statement on serrated polyps in the colon and rectum (2017)

●NICE: Diagnostics guidance on virtual chromoendoscopy to assess colorectal polyps during colonoscopy (2017)

●NICE: Interventional procedures guidance on endoscopic full thickness removal of non-lifting colonic polyps (2017)

●BSG/ACPGBI: Guidelines for the management of large non-pedunculated colorectal polyps (2015)

●NICE: Interventional procedures guidance on combined endoscopic and laparoscopic removal of colonic polyps (2014)

Australia–New Zealand

●Cancer Council Australia (CCA): Clinical practice guidelines for surveillance colonoscopy (2019)

●Choosing Wisely Australia: Do not repeat colonoscopies more often than recommended by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) endorsed guidelines (2016)

Japan

●[In Japanese] Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society (JGES): Colorectal cold polypectomy guideline (colorectal ESD/EMR guideline supplement) (2021)

•[In Japanese] JGES: Colon ESD/EMR guidelines (2014)

●[In English] Japanese Society of Gastroenterology (JSGE): Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for management of colorectal polyps (2021)

●[In Japanese] JSGE: Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for colonic polyp, 2nd edition (2020)