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Colorectal cancer screening behaviors of general surgeons and first-degree family members: a survey-based study

BACKGROUND: Colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates are low in the general population and among health care providers. The aim of this study was to evaluate the CRC screening practices of general surgeons who provide specialized diagnostic testing and CRC treatment and to examine the CRC screening b...

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Autores principales: Celik, Suleyman Utku, Cay, Hasan Gorkem, Bayrakdar, Ersin, Ince, Aysima, Ince, Esra Nur, Celik, Yasemin, Yucel, Yunus Emre, Koc, Mehmet Ali, Ersoz, Siyar, Akyol, Cihangir
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6852782/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31718575
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12876-019-1106-x
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author Celik, Suleyman Utku
Cay, Hasan Gorkem
Bayrakdar, Ersin
Ince, Aysima
Ince, Esra Nur
Celik, Yasemin
Yucel, Yunus Emre
Koc, Mehmet Ali
Ersoz, Siyar
Akyol, Cihangir
author_facet Celik, Suleyman Utku
Cay, Hasan Gorkem
Bayrakdar, Ersin
Ince, Aysima
Ince, Esra Nur
Celik, Yasemin
Yucel, Yunus Emre
Koc, Mehmet Ali
Ersoz, Siyar
Akyol, Cihangir
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description BACKGROUND: Colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates are low in the general population and among health care providers. The aim of this study was to evaluate the CRC screening practices of general surgeons who provide specialized diagnostic testing and CRC treatment and to examine the CRC screening behaviors of their first-degree family members. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was conducted among general surgeons who attended the 21st National Surgical Congress in Turkey held from April 11th to 15th, 2018. The survey included items on demographics, screening-related attitude, CRC screening options, barriers to CRC screening, and surgeons’ annual volumes of CRC cases. RESULTS: A total of 530 respondents completed the survey. Almost one-third of the responding surgeons (29.4%, n = 156) were aged over 50 years, among whom approximately half (47.1%, n = 74) reported having undergone CRC screening and preferring a colonoscopy as the screening modality (78.4%). Among general surgeons aged 50 years and older, high-volume surgeons (≥25 CRC cases per year) were more likely to undergo screening compared with low-volume surgeons (< 25 CRC cases per year). The respondents aged below 50 years reported that 56.1% (n = 210) of their first-degree relatives were up-to-date with CRC screening, mostly with colonoscopy. Compared to low-volume surgeons aged below 50 years, high-volume surgeons’ first-degree relatives were more likely to be up-to-date with CRC screening. CONCLUSION: The survey results demonstrated that routine screening for CRC among surgeons and/or their first-degree relatives is currently not performed at the desired level. However, high-volume surgeons are more likely to participate in routine screening.
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spelling pubmed-68527822019-11-20 Colorectal cancer screening behaviors of general surgeons and first-degree family members: a survey-based study Celik, Suleyman Utku Cay, Hasan Gorkem Bayrakdar, Ersin Ince, Aysima Ince, Esra Nur Celik, Yasemin Yucel, Yunus Emre Koc, Mehmet Ali Ersoz, Siyar Akyol, Cihangir BMC Gastroenterol Research Article BACKGROUND: Colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates are low in the general population and among health care providers. The aim of this study was to evaluate the CRC screening practices of general surgeons who provide specialized diagnostic testing and CRC treatment and to examine the CRC screening behaviors of their first-degree family members. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was conducted among general surgeons who attended the 21st National Surgical Congress in Turkey held from April 11th to 15th, 2018. The survey included items on demographics, screening-related attitude, CRC screening options, barriers to CRC screening, and surgeons’ annual volumes of CRC cases. RESULTS: A total of 530 respondents completed the survey. Almost one-third of the responding surgeons (29.4%, n = 156) were aged over 50 years, among whom approximately half (47.1%, n = 74) reported having undergone CRC screening and preferring a colonoscopy as the screening modality (78.4%). Among general surgeons aged 50 years and older, high-volume surgeons (≥25 CRC cases per year) were more likely to undergo screening compared with low-volume surgeons (< 25 CRC cases per year). The respondents aged below 50 years reported that 56.1% (n = 210) of their first-degree relatives were up-to-date with CRC screening, mostly with colonoscopy. Compared to low-volume surgeons aged below 50 years, high-volume surgeons’ first-degree relatives were more likely to be up-to-date with CRC screening. CONCLUSION: The survey results demonstrated that routine screening for CRC among surgeons and/or their first-degree relatives is currently not performed at the desired level. However, high-volume surgeons are more likely to participate in routine screening. BioMed Central 2019-11-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6852782/ /pubmed/31718575 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12876-019-1106-x Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Celik, Suleyman Utku
Cay, Hasan Gorkem
Bayrakdar, Ersin
Ince, Aysima
Ince, Esra Nur
Celik, Yasemin
Yucel, Yunus Emre
Koc, Mehmet Ali
Ersoz, Siyar
Akyol, Cihangir
Colorectal cancer screening behaviors of general surgeons and first-degree family members: a survey-based study
title Colorectal cancer screening behaviors of general surgeons and first-degree family members: a survey-based study
title_full Colorectal cancer screening behaviors of general surgeons and first-degree family members: a survey-based study
title_fullStr Colorectal cancer screening behaviors of general surgeons and first-degree family members: a survey-based study
title_full_unstemmed Colorectal cancer screening behaviors of general surgeons and first-degree family members: a survey-based study
title_short Colorectal cancer screening behaviors of general surgeons and first-degree family members: a survey-based study
title_sort colorectal cancer screening behaviors of general surgeons and first-degree family members: a survey-based study
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6852782/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31718575
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12876-019-1106-x
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