title: [The importance of colonoscopy in the early detection of colorectal cancer].
abstract: The rates of surveillance for patients with colorectal cancer have been steady in the decades. Aspects regarding the importance of the early detection of the colorectal cancer were focussed, as well as the outstanding difference observed in relation to the surveillance of patients when the detection of the disease is achieved early. It was emphasized the use of colonoscopy as a diagnostic and therapeutic method which brings beneficial results to an effective raising in the rates of detection of patients with colorectal cancer. It was also demonstrated that colonoscopy having a higher accuracy in the diagnosis of the large bowel polyps and in the performance of polypectomies, has much contributed to put to an end to the cycle described by Morson: the evolution of adenomatous polyp to cancer.
authors.affiliation: Disciplina de Cirurgia do Apaelho Digestivo, Facucdade de Medicina, Universidade de S. Paulo.
authors.forename: S C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Nahas
mesh_terms: D003113:Colonoscopy; D015179:Colorectal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000401:mortality; D013997:Time Factors
vernacular_title: A importância da colonoscopia na detecção precoce do câncer colo-retal.