David T. Rubin, MD, FACG: disclosed no relevant financial relationship with any ineligible company (commercial interest).
Learning Objectives:
Review the well-described risks of CRC in UC, with an emphasis on chronic inflammation
Learn how prevention is focused on secondary prevention with periodic colonoscopies
Discuss why high-definition scopes are preferred, and white-light or virtual chromoendoscopy is sufficient for most exams
Understand why random (non-targeted) biopsies are not needed in most patients
Explain how discrete lesions that can be removed completely do not in and of themselves warrant colectomy, but evaluation of the combined/cumulative risk factors is important