Do many patients who undergo surgery for colorectal cancer receive surveillance colonoscopies earlier than recommended by guidelines?
Many Medicare enrollees who have undergone curative resection for colorectal cancer undergo surveillance colonoscopy more frequently than recommended by the guidelines. Reducing overuse could free limited resources for appropriate colonoscopy examinations of inadequately screened populations.
These results suggest that HIF-1α may promote the EMT development through regulating fibrotic gene expression during I/R injury in human renal TECs, and miR-21 could be among the important regulatory pathways in the process.