Society guideline links: Colorectal surgery for cancer

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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.

The recommendations in the following guidelines may vary from those that appear in UpToDate topic reviews. Readers who are looking for UpToDate topic reviews should use the UpToDate search box to find the relevant content. Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Colorectal cancer" and "Society guideline links: Screening for colorectal cancer" and "Society guideline links: Bowel obstruction".)

International

●Italian Society of Geriatric Surgery (SICG), Italian Society of Surgical Pathophysiology (SIFIPAC), Italian Society of Endoscopic Surgery and New Technologies (SICE), and WSES (World Society of Emergency Surgery): International consensus project for the multidisciplinary management of elderly patients with rectal cancer (2021)

●Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Society: Guidelines for perioperative care in elective colorectal surgery – Recommendations, 2018 (published 2019)

●WSES: Guidelines for the management of iatrogenic colonoscopy perforation, 2017 (published 2018)

Canada

●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 (2024)

●Cancer Care Ontario (CCO): Optimization of surgical and pathological quality performance in radical surgery for colon and rectal cancer – Margins and lymph nodes (2016)

United States

●American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO): Guideline for the management of locally advanced rectal cancer (2024)

●ASCO: Guideline for the treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer (2022)

●American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons (ASCRS): Clinical practice guidelines for the management of colon cancer (2022)

●ASCRS: Clinical practice guidelines for the surveillance and survivorship care of patients after curative treatment of colon and rectal cancer (2021)

●ASCO: Resource-stratified guideline for treatment of patients with late-stage colorectal cancer (2020)

●ASCRS: Clinical practice guidelines for the management of rectal cancer (2020)

●ASCO: Resource-stratified guideline for treatment of patients with early-stage colorectal cancer (2019)

●ASCRS: Clinical practice guidelines for the use of bowel preparation in elective colon and rectal surgery (2019)

●ASCRS: Clinical practice guidelines for the prevention of venous thromboembolic disease in colorectal surgery (2018)

●ASCRS and Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES): Clinical practice guidelines for enhanced recovery after colon and rectal surgery (2017)

●SAGES: Guidelines for laparoscopic resection of curable colon and rectal cancer (2012)

Europe

●European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO): Localised colon cancer – Clinical practice guidelines for diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up (2020)

●ESMO: Rectal cancer – Clinical practice guidelines for diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up (2017)

●European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (EAES): Clinical practice guidelines on laparoscopic extraperitoneal rectal cancer surgery (2011)

United Kingdom

●Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland (ACPGBI): Consensus guidelines in emergency colorectal surgery (2021)

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

●ACPGBI: Position statement on closure of the perineal defect after abdominoperineal excision for rectal adenocarcinoma (2018)

●ACPGBI: Guidelines for the management of cancer of the colon, rectum, and anus (2017)

India

●Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR): Consensus document for management of colorectal cancer (2014)

Australia–New Zealand

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

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Japan

●[In English] Japanese Society for Cancer of the Colon and Rectum (JSCCR): Guidelines 2020 for the clinical practice of hereditary colorectal cancer (published 2021)

●[In English] Pan-Asian Adapted European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of patients with localised colon cancer (2021)

●[In Japanese] JSCCR: Guidelines for the treatment of hereditary colorectal cancer (2020)