In a Healio video exclusive, Rene D. Gomez-Esquivel, MD, discusses risk factors for pediatric colon cancer, as well as best practices for screening and lesion resection, from his presentation at the 2023 NASPGHAN annual meeting.
“Colon cancer is the most common solid tumor of the GI tract in pediatrics,” Gomez-Esquivel, associate professor of medicine and pediatrics at Morsani College of Medicine at the University of South Florida, said. “The problem with pediatric cancer compared to adult colon cancer is that the pediatric patients tend to present with more advanced disease