This document is a revision and update of the 1999 Guideline publication “Guidelines for the Prevention, Early Detection and Management of Colorectal Cancer”.
It has been developed by the multidisciplinary ACN Colorectal Cancer Guidelines Revision Working Party, not only because it was timely, but because of numerous enquiries as to when a new edition would be released.
The 1999 Guidelines have been widely used as a reference and in several reviews which have demonstrated that concordance between guidelines and practice has been achieved, but that there is still a distance to travel before it is complete.