Review of NICE Technology Appraisal Guidance No 105; Laparoscopic surgery for the treatment of colorectal cancer

As you may be aware the planned date for review of the above guidance was September 2009.

This is the date at which the Institute decides whether sufficient new evidence has emerged for the Appraisal Committee to be asked to undertake a full updates of the guidance.

Having re-run the search strategy from the original assessment report the Institute has not found any relevant additions to the evidence base that would have a material effect on the guidance. Consequently we propose that the guidance will remain in place until it is incorporated into the Colorectal Cancer Guideline, due to publish in 2011.

In order to be completely confident that this is appropriate, we are asking all relevant consultees and commentators, to inform us of any evidence which would suggest that a review would be beneficial.  Please see appendix A for a full list of the organisations we have contacted.

Please note all comments received will be published on the Institute’s website when a decision has been taken.