Colorectal cancer outcome evaluation

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The American Society of Clinical Oncology developed in 1999 a set of guidelines for the surveillance of the post-operative patient with colorectal cancer after thorough review of the literature of common surveillance protocols. Protocols were reviewed on the basis of reduction in morbidity and five-year disease free survival. Monitoring carcino-embryonic antigen (CEA) levels and colonoscopy were found to be the most effective in many protocols, with liver function evaluation, fecal occult blood testing, liver ultrasound and chest X-ray being less effective in overall outcome (Desch et al. 1999). Colonoscopy appears to have the best predictive value for morbidity. A pre-operative or peri-operative evaluation of the entire colon is essential in the surveillance... 

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