Implications for the colorectal surgeon following the 100 000 Genomes Project.

Frank D McDermottKaty NewtonAndrew D BeggsSusan K Clark

Published in: Colorectal disease : the official journal of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland (2021)

There are many challenges but also exciting opportunities to embed new 'omic' technologies and innovation into 21st century colorectal surgery. The next phase for the colorectal community is how we engage with this change, with questions around training, identification of genomic multidisciplinary team (MDT) champions and how we collaborate with the core members of the MDT, clinical geneticists and national genomic testing.

Keyphrases

quality improvement
copy number
mental health
healthcare
palliative care
robot assisted
gene expression
bioinformatics analysis
dna methylation
genome wide