Colonoscopy in the post-COVID-19 era

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common malignancy in men and women in England and the second most common cause of cancer-related death. The English bowel cancer screening programme (BCSP) was introduced for those aged 60–69 years in 2006, with rollout complete for 74-year-olds in 2014 and a predicted reduction in CRC mortality of 16% based on the first 2 million tests offered.1 The number of BCSP colonoscopies has increased by nearly a...