Background: Colonoscopy is advocated for screening and prevention of colorectal cancer
(CRC), but randomized trials supporting the benefit of this practice are not available …

During the past few decades, many studies on socio-economic factors and health outcomes
have been developed using various methodologies with differing approaches. A …

Despite the policy and research attention on ensuring equitable access—equal access for
equal need—to health care, research continues to identify inequities in access to cancer …

OBJECTIVES: Many of the colorectal cancers (CRCs) diagnosed within 3 years after a
colonoscopy are likely because of lesions missed on the initial colonoscopy. In this …

OBJECTIVES: A higher proportion of colorectal neoplasia among women occurs in the
proximal colon, which might be more frequently missed by colonoscopy. There are no data …

Background & Aims The increase in use of anesthesia assistance (AA) to achieve deep
sedation with propofol during colonoscopy has significantly increased colonoscopy costs …

Background Over the past several decades researchers have produced substantial
evidence of a social gradient in a variety of health outcomes, rising from systematic …

Introduction Implementation of population-based colorectal cancer (CRC) screening
programs should reduce disparities in participation in CRC screening. We estimated CRC …

OBJECTIVES: Although colonoscopy use has increased in the United States and Canada
since the early 1990s, it is unclear whether this has been associated with benefit at the …

Objectives: To identify barriers to and facilitators of colorectal cancer (CRC) screening
participation among different cultural subgroups in South Australia, and to describe how …