Cancer screening promotional and program support materials are available at no charge from BC Cancer Screening.

Order materials.

• Answering Your Questions About Colon Cancer Screening
  
• Available in English, French, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Punjabi, Tagalog, Korean, Persian, Spanish, Vietnamese, and German. 
  
  
• Answering Your Questions About Colonoscopy
• Available in English, French, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Punjabi, Tagalog, Korean, Persian, Spanish, Vietnamese, and German. 
  


• Answering Your Questions About An Abnormal FIT
• Available in English, French, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Punjabi, Tagalog, Korean, Persian, Spanish, Vietnamese, and German. 
  
  
• Preparing For A Colonoscopy
  
• Available in English, French, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Punjabi, Tagalog, Korean, Persian, Spanish, Vietnamese, and German. 
  
  
• Fact Sheet: Colon Polyps and Follow-up Recommendations
• Available in English.
  

• Screening for Colon Cancer: Colonoscopy
  
• Available in English, Cantonese, Mandarin, and Punjabi.
  
  
• Screening for Colon Cancer: Fecal Immunochemical Test (FIT)
• Available in English, Cantonese, Mandarin, and Punjabi.
  
  
• Screening for Colon Cancer: Abnormal FIT Results 
  
• Available in English, Cantonese, Mandarin, and Punjabi.
  
  
• Patient Stories:
  
• Neveen's Story
  

• FIT Instructions
  
• Available in English, French, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Punjabi, Tagalog, Korean, Arabic, Farsi, Spanish, Vietnamese, German, Japanese.

Information for Providers in Northern Health: Participating in the BC Colon Screening Program, July 2024 (PDF)‎.

• Colon Screening Program Fact Sheet
  This fact sheet outlines eligibility and the patient pathway for the colon screening program.
  
• FIT Decision Table
  A decision-making tool to support health care providers to determine if a patient should have a FIT ordered.
  

• Pre-Post Colonoscopy Standards
  A document outlining quality standards for pre and post-colonoscopy assessment within the BC Cancer Colon Screening program.
  

• Colonoscopy Referral Form
  Used by health care providers to refer patients to colonoscopy.
• Colonoscopy Referral Update Form
  
  Used by endoscopy clinic staff to inform the Colon Screening Program when patients are not proceeding with colonoscopy procedure, or require transfer to a different clinic.
  
  
  
• Standard Outpatient Lab Requisition
  Used by health care providers to order FIT for patients.
  
  
• Pre/Post Colonoscopy Unplanned Event Form 
  Used by colonoscopists to document unplanned events related to the colonoscopy procedure.
  
  
• Colonoscopy Reporting Form 
  
• Page 1
  Used by colonoscopists to document the colonoscopy procedure.
  
• Instructions for Page 1 
  
• Page 2
  Used by colonoscopists to document the colonoscopy procedure, in addition to Page 1 of the Colonoscopy Reporting Form.
  
• Instructions for Page 2 
  

• Colonoscopy Specimen Table Example

  An example of how the colonoscopy specimen table should be completed.
  

• Colon Screening Program Results (2020)
  
• ‎Colon Screening Program Results (2019)
  
• Colon Screening Program Results (2018)
  
• Colon Screening Program Results (2017)
• Colon Screening Program Results (2016)
• Screening Performance Report (2013 to 2016)
  

• Canada-Global Rating Scale (C-GRS)
  
• Dr. Jennifer Telford. “Live Presentation of Completing the C-GRS.” September 2019.
• Guidelines on Safety and Quality Indicators in Endoscopy
  

Colonoscopy Education Session: November 2023

• Watch Webinar (Video)
  
  

Colonoscopy Education Session: June 2023

• Watch Webinar (Video)
  

Colonoscopy Education Session: November 2022

• Watch Webinar (Video)
  

Colonoscopy Education Session: June 2022

• Watch Webinar (Video)
  

Colonoscopy Education Session: March 2022

• Watch Webinar (Video) 

Colonoscopy Education Session: December 2021

• Watch Webinar (Video) 
  

Colonoscopy Education Session: June 2021

• Dr. Steven Heitman: "Sessile Serrated Lesions (SSLs)" Detection and Resection" Jun 2021
  

Colonoscopy Education Session: Management of Large Colorectal Polyps 2021

• Watch Webinar (Video)
  
• Dr. Sharlene Gill: “Do malignant polyps that are endoscopically resected require surveillance for metastatic disease?” Feb 2021
  
• Dr. Ahmer Karimuddin: "Surgical Resection of Polyps" Feb 2021
• Dr. David Schaeffer: "High-Risk Features of Malignant Polyps" Feb 2021
• Dr. Neal Shahidi: "A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Large Colorectal Polyps" Feb 2021
  

• Dr. Anna Rahmani. "Anti-thrombotics and Colonoscopy" Oct 2018
• Dr. David Schaeffer. "Pathology Perspective of Colonic Polyposis Syndromes" Oct 2018
  
• Dr. Robert Enns. "Improving your ADR" Oct 2018
• Dr. Kevin Waschke. "Hot Snare Polypectomy" Oct 2018
  
• Dr. Ahmer Karimuddin. "The Malignant Polyp" Oct 2018
  
• Dr. Kevin Waschke. "Do Benign Polyps Require an Operation?" Oct 2018
  
• Dr. Jennifer Telford "Colon Screening Program Overview" Oct 2018

• Dr. Ahmer Karimuddin. "Management of the Other Neoplasms" Oct 2017
  
• Dr. Paul Mullins. "Bowel Preparation Update" Oct 2017
  
• Dr. Carla Nash. "Top 3 Colonoscopy Papers in the Past Year" Oct 2017
  
• Dr. Heitman. "Top 10 Things to do (or not) When you Find a Polyp" Oct 2017
  
• Dr. Heitman. "Polypectomy Techniques" Oct 2017
  
• Dr. David Schaeffer. "Malignant Polyps" Oct 2017
  

‎Published in 2021

• Risks associated with colonoscopy in a population-based colon screening program: an observational cohort study.
• Higher adenoma detection, sessile serrated lesion detection, and proximal sessile serrated lesion detection are associated with physician specialty and performance on Direct Observation of Procedural Skills.
• Colorectal adenocarcinomas diagnosed following a negative fecal immunochemical test show high-risk pathological features in a colon screening program.
• Serrated Lesion Detection in a Population-based Colon Screening Program.
  

Published in 2020

• Re-examining the 1-mm margin and submucosal depth of invasion: a review of 216 malignant colorectal polyps.
• Premature Fecal Immunochemical Testing in British Columbia Canada: a Retrospective Review of Physician and Screening Participant Characteristics.
  

Published in 2019

• Performance of the Fecal Immunochemical Test in Patients With a Family History of Colorectal Cancer.
  

Published in 2016

• Cancer Screening Guidelines
   Up-to-date guidelines for all four provincial screening programs in one convenient document. 
  
  
• FNHA Cancer Screening Flipbook
  Cancer Prevention and Cultural Safety resource from the First Nations Health Authority.