Longer Withdrawal Time Reduces Miss Rates in Screening Colonoscopy

[Aalam]

During screening colonoscopy, a scope withdrawal time (WT) of 9 minutes vs 6 minutes led to a reduced adenoma miss rate (AMR) and advanced adenoma miss rate (AAMR) and an improved adenoma detection rate (ADR), according to a randomized controlled trial conducted in China.

[MITHU]

@aalam "When linking that with other studies showing a positive correlation between adenoma detection rate and interval cancers, we can conjecture that these longer exams will result in improved cancer detection. This makes intuitive sense," said Gellad, associate professor of medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina