Kai Chun Wu

TL;DR: The Asia Pacific Working Group on Colorectal Cancer and international experts launch consensus recommendations aiming to improve the awareness of healthcare providers of the changing epidemiology and screening tests available, as well as reviewing the literature and regional data.

TL;DR: In this article, a multicenter, international study investigated the association of screening test participation with knowledge of, attitudes toward, and barriers to CRC and screening tests in different cultural and sociopolitical contexts.

TL;DR: The APCS scoring system, which is based on age, sex, family history, and smoking, is a useful tool for determining risk for colorectal cancer and advanced adenoma in asymptomatic subjects and use of the APCS score-based algorithm in triaging subjects for FIT or Colonoscopy can substantially reduce colonoscopy workload.

TL;DR: These findings do not support the need to discriminate proband identity in screening participants with affected FDRs when their risks of colorectal neoplasia were estimated, and they were similar to that of subjects with their siblings affected.

TL;DR: Experts in IBD across the Asia Pacific region were invited to put together recommendations based on their experience and the currently available data, and the general consensus is that maintaining disease control should remain the main principle of management.