Patients with First Degree Relatives with Disease Quick Table: "Conflicting"
Please note: In 2003, the CTF updated its Grades of Recommendations to include an "I Recommendation" for situations where insufficient evidence exists to allow a recommendation to be made. (Formerly, these situations were captured under a "C Recommendation".) This change is not retroactive, and all "C Recommendations" made prior to 2003 have not been reevaluated in light of the new "I" recommendation grade. For a discussion of these recommendation grades, please link to the 2003 article in the Canadian Medical Association Journal here.
Quick Table of C Recommendations Specific to Patients with First Degree Relatives with Disease
| "C" Recommendations | ||
| Colorectal cancer | Colonoscopy | Average risk adults, high-risk adults with family history of polyps/CRC |
| Ovarian cancer | Pelvic exam, transvaginal ultrasound, CA 125 or combination | Family history 1st degree relative |
| Tobacco-caused disease | Counselling on environmental tobacco smoke | Families with smokers |