Lo screening del tumore del colon-retto nei paesi bassi: Caratteristiche, organizzazione, sorveglianza, risultati e controllo di qualità

Evelien Dekker is a professor of Gastrointestinal Oncology at the University of Amsterdam’s Faculty of Medicine (AMC-UvA), specialised in screening and diagnosing colorectal carcinoma. She joined the Academic Medical Center (AMC) in 2005 as a head of the multidisciplinary clinic for hereditary colorectal cancer. Her main clinical and research activities include population screening methods and surveillance for colorectal cancer, quality and advanced technical developments within colonoscopy, treatment of colorectal polyps and the early stages of intestinal cancer, polyposis syndromes and hereditary intestinal cancer. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Procolo, a center of expertise for colonoscopy in close collaboration with AMC. She has been intensively involved in the Dutch national screening programme for colorectal cancer, for which she was awarded in 2013 a honourable prize, the ZonMw (the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development) Pearl. In this unique and comprehensive interview with Prof. Dekker, she discusses the Dutch colorectal cancer screening programme. We believe that a glance into this programme may give inspiration to others and, last but not least, may help improve the quality of screening and non screening colonoscopies in the daily practice.