Society guideline links: Hereditary colorectal cancer syndromes

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Screening for colorectal cancer".)

International

●World Gastroenterology Organisation (WGO)/International Digestive Cancer Alliance (IDCA): Practice guidelines for colorectal cancer screening (2007)

United States

●US Multi-Society Task Force on Colorectal Cancer (USMSTF): Recommendations for diagnosis and management of cancer risk in the gastrointestinal hamartomatous polyposis syndromes (2022)

●American College of Radiology (ACR): ACR Appropriateness Criteria on colorectal cancer screening (2018)

●American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons (ASCRS): Clinical practice guidelines for the management of inherited polyposis syndromes (2017)

●ASCRS: Clinical practice guidelines for the surgical treatment of patients with Lynch syndrome (2017)

●ASCRS: Clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of colon cancer (2017)

●American College of Gastroenterology (ACG): Clinical guideline on genetic testing and management of hereditary gastrointestinal cancer syndromes (2015)

●American Gastroenterological Association (AGA): Guideline on the diagnosis and management of Lynch syndrome (2015)

●USMSTF: Guidelines on genetic evaluation and management of Lynch syndrome − A consensus statement (2014)

Europe

●European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO): Clinical practice guidelines on hereditary gastrointestinal cancers – Diagnosis, treatment and follow-up (2019)

●European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE): Guideline on endoscopic management of Lynch syndrome and of familial risk of colorectal cancer (2019)

●ESGE: Guideline on endoscopic management of polyposis syndromes (2019)

●Revised guidelines for the clinical management of Lynch syndrome (HNPCC) – Recommendations by a group of European experts (2013)

United Kingdom

●British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG)/Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland (ACPGBI)/United Kingdom Cancer Genetics Group (UKCGG): Guidelines for the management of hereditary colorectal cancer (2019)

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Diagnostics guidance on molecular testing strategies for Lynch syndrome in people with colorectal cancer (2017)

●Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN): Diagnosis and management of colorectal cancer − A national clinical guideline (2011, revised 2016)

India

●Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR): Consensus document for management of colorectal cancer (2014)

Australia-New Zealand

●Australasian Gastrointestinal Pathology Society (AGPS): Consensus guidelines for universal defective mismatch repair testing in colorectal carcinoma (2019)

●Cancer Council Australia (CCA): Clinical practice guidelines for the prevention, early detection, and management of colorectal cancer (2017)

Japan

●[In English] Japanese Society for Cancer of the Colon and Rectum (JSCCR): Guideline for the clinical practice of hereditary colorectal cancer, 2016 (published 2018)

●[In Japanese] JSCCR: Guidelines for the clinical practice of hereditary colorectal cancer (2016)