Guidelines that recently lowered the colorectal screening age to 45 for all individuals of average risk were right on track, suggested a retrospective study of predictors for advanced premalignant lesions (APLs) and colorectal cancer.
In a national registry analysis involving over half a million colonoscopies, older age was an independent predictor of risk, reported Steven Itzkowitz, MD, of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, and colleagues.