Colorectal Cancer Screening and Prevention
A special issue of Gastrointestinal Disorders (ISSN 2624-5647).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 April 2023) | Viewed by 10627
Special Issue Editor
Interests: cancer screening; health behaviour; prevention
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
I would like to invite you to submit a manuscript to the Special Issue of Gastrointest Disord on Colorectal Cancer (CRC) Research. Possible topics are:
- CRC screening
- personalised CRC screening
- improving participation in CRC screening
- determinants of (non-)participation
- primary prevention of CRC
- CRC screening in vulnerable groups
- opportunistic CRC screening
- follow-up with colonoscopy after positive screening result
- Advantages and limitations of current screening strategies
- Improvement and optimization of current screening techniques and development of new techniques in early detection of colorectal lesions
- Quality of screening process
- Adherence to screening
- Awareness, knowledge and attitude of the target population towards CRC screening
- Risk stratification-based screening
- Population preference of screening tests
- Individuals’ tolerance and acceptance of different CRC screening techniques
Manuscripts with original research are welcomed, as well quantitative and qualitative research, mixed-methods research, reviews and meta-analyses.
Research is not geographically limited; studies from LMIC are encouraged.
Deadline: 30 April 2022
Prof. Dr. Guido Van Hal
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- colorectal cancer
- screening
- prevention
- colonoscopy
- quantitative research
- qualitative research
- mixed-methods
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