Each July, Atlanta magazine uses a database compiled by the established healthcare research firm Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. to assist in selections for its annual Top Doctors issue. Doctors are nominated for consideration through both a nationwide survey and a peer nomination process open to licensed physicians in Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Hall, Henry and Rockdale counties. Castle Connolly’s physician-led team of researchers then select the Top Doctors through a rigorous screening process that includes an evaluation of educational and professional experience.

Digestive Healthcare of Georgia (DHG) offers a full range of gastroenterology services, including consultations and procedures, and offers the newest treatments available while providing highly knowledgeable, compassionate, and advanced care. With 19 physicians in seven locations, Digestive Healthcare of Georgia’s quality of care is reflected in its high patient satisfaction rates and in the clinical research that it is trusted to conduct. Digestive Healthcare of Georgia has endoscopy centers in Atlanta, Jasper and Fayetteville, all three of which exceed the national benchmark standards in adenoma detection rates and cecal intubation rates.

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About the Study

The researchers reviewed a database of 2,105 outpatient screening colonoscopies done during a five-year period at the Digestive Healthcare of Georgia Endoscopy Center. The study looked at two groups of patients. One was returning for follow-up screening colonoscopies after having had normal initial screening colonoscopies at least eight years previously. Precancerous polyps were found in 27% of these patients. No interval colon cancers were found. The other group consisted of patients having their first screening colonoscopies. Precancerous polyps were found in 32% of these patients. No cancers were found. Despite being an average of ten years older, patients who were returning for their second colonoscopies had lower rates of precancerous neoplasms than the patients who were having their initial screening colonoscopies. No patients were found to have colon cancer at their ten year follow up colonoscopies. This study supports the safety of the recommended ten year interval between colonoscopies in average-risk persons who have normal initial colonoscopies.

About Colorectal Cancer

The Centers of Disease Control and Prevention reports that colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer for both men and women in the U.S. Understanding how this disease progresses after the initial diagnosis and treatment provides insight into if and how it might recur in at-risk patients.

Each year, colorectal cancer kills thousands of people. The American Cancer Society estimates that in 2018 there will be over 50,000 deaths attributed to this form of cancer. The good news is those numbers are dropping. Studies like this one along with better patient education and enhanced screening methods are in part responsible for the decline.

The published study focuses on patients in just this one practice, so it hits close to home for both of these medical professionals who specialize in gastroenterology or the study of the digestive system and its disorders. If you would like to read the full article, you can download it here.

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