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The Future of Colorectal CancerScreening for Colorectal Cancer Leads to a More Favourable Stage at Diagnosis

Challenge I: To Improve Minimal Invasive Resection Techniques and Identification of Regional Lymph Node Metastases
Challenge II: To Improve Selection of Patients Who Will Benefit From Adjuvant Treatment Strategies

Conclusion

Screening for CRC leads to large improvements in the clinical outcomes of patients. To further improve these outcomes, we foresee important challenges to develop new minimally invasive resection methods, including intraluminal techniques and optimised profiling methods to select patients for adequate adjuvant treatment in order to further reduce recurrence rates as well as unnecessary toxicity.