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Diagnosis of Early Colorectal Carcinoma: Endoscopic Diagnosis and Classification

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Accurate endoscopic diagnosis of early colorectal cancer (CRC) is of utmost importance, as it can guide treatment in terms of endoscopic resection or surgery. Compared with surgery, endoluminal treatment can significantly reduce the length of hospital stay, or in some cases be performed as an outpatient procedure, as well as improve quality of life after treatment. It is, however, crucial to make a correct diagnosis prior to endoscopic resection to avoid undertreatment of deep invasive lesions with resultant post-colonoscopy colorectal cancer, which can have a poor prognosis. Modern endoscopic technology enables accurate determination of invasion depth of early CRC. This chapter will introduce the rationale and provide technical suggestions for the endoscopic diagnosis of early CRC.

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  1. Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

    Han Mo Chiu

  2. Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Han Mo Chiu

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  1. Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Philip W. Y. Chiu

  2. Gastrointestinal Center & Institute of minimally-invasive endoscopic care (iMEC), Sano Hospital, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

    Yasushi Sano

  3. Department of Gastrointestinal Oncology, Endoscopy Training and Learning Center, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer & Cardiovascular Diseases, Higashinari-ku, Osaka, Japan

    Noriya Uedo

  4. Gastroenterology Department, Lyell McEwin Hospital Gastroenterology Department, Adelaide, SA, Australia

    Rajvinder Singh

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Chiu, H.M. (2021). Diagnosis of Early Colorectal Carcinoma: Endoscopic Diagnosis and Classification. In: Chiu, P.W.Y., Sano, Y., Uedo, N., Singh, R. (eds) Endoscopy in Early Gastrointestinal Cancers, Volume 1. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6769-3_7

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