Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Water and Air Colonoscopy in a Community Based Setting

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Tubular Adenoma, Colon Cancer, Hyperplastic Polyp

In brief

The purpose of this study is to determine if screening colonoscopy performed on adults with the water exchange method, as opposed to the air method, will have a higher adenoma detection rate.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01729416

Run by

University of California, Davis

People needed

178

Starts

2014-02-01

Expected to finish

2015-04-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-05-31

Who can join

Age: 50 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Age ≥50 years
• Individuals able to provide informed consent
• Individuals presenting for average-risk colorectal cancer screening by colonoscopy
• Individuals presenting for surveillance of adenomatous/sessile serrated colon polyps as per the US multi-society taskforce on colorectal cancer

You may not qualify if…

• Patients who decline to participate
• Prior partial or complete colectomy
• Patients with history of inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease)
• Patients with prior history of colorectal cancer
• Patients with history of screening colonoscopy within the past 10 years
• Patients with history of familial polyposis syndromes (Familial Adenomatous Polyposis, Lynch Syndrome)

Where it is running

• Elk Grove PCN, University of California, Davis — Elk Grove, California, United States

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