The Utility and Feasibility of Mt-sDNA as a Surveillance Procedure in Colorectal Cancer Survivors

Exclusion Criteria

• •Stage IV colorectal cancer
• •Surgical treatment with subtotal colectomy or total proctocolectomy
• •Diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease)
• •Diagnosis of polyposis syndrome including Lynch syndrome or familial polyposis
• •Presence of advanced adenomas (1 cm or larger, villous features and/or high grade dysplasia) that were not removed at the preoperative colonoscopy or contained in the resection specimen.
• •Inability to provide informed consent
• •Inability to understand spoken and written English
• •Medical comorbidities that would be contraindications to sedation or that would preclude any benefit of routine surveillance post-resection. These would be at the discretion of the participant's providers.