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Published on: August 1, 2019
Cost-effectiveness of early one-year colonoscopy surveillance after polypectomy
Cesare Hassan1, Perry J Pickhardt, Emilio Di Giulio
1Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy Unit, Nuovo Regina Margherita Hospital, Rome, Italy. cesareh@hotmail.com
Purpose:
Some colorectal cancers have been unexpectedly diagnosed within one year after polypectomy in high-quality trials. The purpose of this study was to assess the clinical and economic impact of early surveillance colonoscopy one year after polypectomy in relation to detection of colorectal cancer.
Methods:
A decision analysis model was constructed to compare strategies of performing or not performing one-year endoscopic surveillance in 60-year-old patients who underwent an initial endoscopic polypectomy. Outcome measures included the number of early colonoscopies needed to detect one case of cancer and to prevent one cancer-related death and the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio.
Results:
The number of early one-year colonoscopies needed to detect one cancer and to prevent one cancer-related death was 354 and 1,437, respectively. The incremental cost-effectiveness ratio of performing early one-year colonoscopy as compared with not performing it was $66,136 per life-year gained.
Conclusions:
Current guidelines for postpolypectomy surveillance are relatively inefficient in excluding a clinically meaningful colorectal cancer risk at one year after polypectomy.
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