Sikorski Piotr, Szamocka Małgorzata, Meder Agnieszka, Ameryk Monika, Świątkowski Maciej. Assessment of colonoscopy screening by elderly people. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2017;7(12):386-399. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1158472 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/5216 https://pbn.nauka.gov.pl/sedno-webapp/work-wizard?execution=e1s8 The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part B item 1223 (26.01.2017). 1223 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eISSN 2391-8306 7 © The Authors 2017; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 01.12.2017. Revised: 15.12.2017. Accepted: 31.12.2017. Assessment of colonoscopy screening by elderly people Piotr Sikorski, Małgorzata Szamocka, Agnieszka Meder, Monika Ameryk, Maciej Świątkowski Department of Gastroenterology and Nutrition Disorders, Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland Summary Forecasts indicate that in the next decade cancer will become the most common cause of death in our country. Over 140,000 new cases of malignant neoplasms are reported annually in Poland. Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most frequently detected malignancies: third in men and second in women. The aim of the study was the assessment of colonoscopy screening for early detection of colorectal cancer by elderly screening subjects. The study group consisted of 106 elderly people (aged 66 years and older), and the control group consisted of 100 consecutive people aged 40 to 65 years who reported to the Clinic for colonoscopy screening under PBP. Subjects from the control group expressed much more positive opinion about the usefulness of colonoscopy screening. 99,1% of subjects from this group assessed the examination as “very useful”, while in the study group such an opinion was expressed by 76% of subjects (p Keywords: colorectal cancer, colonoscopy screening, elderly people Due to the poor assessment of colonoscopy screening made by elderly people, a comprehensive analysis of the investigated procedure should be conducted, which should lead to improvements at all of its stages.