About this trial
This is a cross-sectional study aimed at identifying factors which best predicts patients at high risk of colorectal cancer or colorectal adenomas and to develop a risk prediction model.
Eligibility criteria
This trial does not accept healthy volunteersQualifiers
Aged ≥30 years* and able to give informed consent
Patients attending colonoscopy
Through Bowel Cancer Screening Programme (FIT positive, Bowelscope conversion, surveillance)
Through standard NHS care (most commonly due to iron deficiency anaemia, altered bowel habit, weight loss, rectal bleeding, planned polypectomy**, those referred on basis of family history, abnormal cross-sectional imaging, polyp surveillance or post CRC surveillance)
Disqualifiers
Unable to give informed consent
Known polyposis syndrome
Previous total colectomy
Known colonic stricture which would limit complete colonoscopy
Trial population
Patients who have been referred for a colonoscopy (minimum age limits as above in inclusion criteria) either through the bowel cancer screening programme, as part of a surveillance programme or due to symptoms
Trial design
Cohort
Cross-sectional
Treatments tested in this trial
Colonoscopy
Diagnostic testDiagnostic colonoscopy
Treatment groups
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
Occurrence of colorectal neoplasia
Incidence of colorectal neoplasia (colorectal cancer and advanced adenomas)
Secondary outcomes
Stool microbiome pattern
Assessing trends in variation of stool microbiome in patients with normal colon, adenomas, bowel cancer)
Number of participants who consent for future contact
A registry of patients who consent to be contacted in the future for future research studies
Sponsors and contacts
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South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust
Lead sponsor
Newcastle University
Collaborator