ESCP-led
- T1 rectal cancer guideline
- Total neoaduvant treatment for rectal cancer
- Anal pruritus consensus statement
- Consensus statement on AI in the guideline development project
Collaborative projects
- European guidelines on multidisciplinary management of obstructed defecation syndrome
- Guideline on the management of SUDD, uncomplicated and complicated diverticulitis (EAES-led)
- Guideline on TaTME for rectal cancer (EAES-led)
- Post-polypectomy guideline update and Joint position statement on early colorectal neoplasia (ESGE-led)
- Guidelines on the management of appendicitis
- Screening and management of high grade anal squamous intraepithelial lesions in women at risk for anal squamous cell carcinoma consensus statement
There is a list of organisation acronyms at the bottom of the page.
T1 rectal cancer guideline
Collaboration: ESCP-led with ESSO and BSG
ESCP lead: Triantafyllos Doulias
November 2025 Update:
Manuscript is almost completed, due for submission to BJS
Total neoadjuvant treatment for rectal cancer
Collaboration: ESCP-led with ASCRS/CSSANZ/EAES/ACPGBI
ESCP lead: Fabian Grass
Anal pruritus consensus statement
Collaboration: ESCP-led with ASCRS/CSSANZ/ACPGBI
ESCP lead: Audrius Dulskas
Consensus statement on AI in the guideline development project
Collaboration: ESCP-led, with ASCRS/CSSANZ/EAES/ACPGBI
ESCP lead: Christos Kontovounisios
European guidelines on multidisciplinary management of obstructed defecation syndrome
Collaboration: ESCP, UEG, ESGAR, EAGEN, ESGENA, ESNM and ESPCG
ESCP lead: Gaetano Gallo
November 2025 Update:
Submitted to UEG journal
Guideline on the management of SUDD, uncomplicated and complicated diverticulitis
Collaboration: EAES-led with SAGES and ESCP
ESCP leads: Triantafyllos Doulias and Stéphanie Breukink
Two papers on complicated diverticulitis have been published so far - a rapid guideline and a meta-analysis.
November 2025 Update:
Final Delphi, due for submission to the Surgical Endoscopy journal in December 2025
Guideline on TaTME for rectal cancer
Collaboration: EAES-led, with ESCP
Led by Audrius Dulskas and Michel Adamina
November 2025 Update:
Final Delphi, due for submission to the Surgical Endoscopy journal
Post-polypectomy guideline update and Joint position statement on early colorectal neoplasia
Collaboration: ESGE-led, with ESCP
ESCP leads: Antonino Spinelli and Triantafyllos Doulias
Guidelines on the management of appendicitis
Collaboration: EAES, SAGES & ESCP
Led by Lisa Masey and Nicolas Avellaneda
Screening and management of high grade anal squamous intraepithelial lesions in women at risk for anal squamous cell carcinoma - consensus statement
Collaboration: ESGO, IANS, ISSVD, EFC, ESCP & ASCCP
Organisation acronyms
List of organisations that the European Society for Coloproctology (ESCP) collaborates with on guidelines and consensus statements:
- ASCCP: American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology
- ACPGBI: Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain & Ireland
- ASCRS: American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons
- BSG: British Society of Gastroenterology
- CSSANZ: Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia and New Zealand
- EAES: European Association for Endoscopic Surgery
- EAGEN: European Association for Gastroenterology, Endoscopy & Nutrition
- ESGENA: European Society of Gastroenterology and Endoscopy Nurses and Associates
- EFC: European Federation for Colposcopy
- ESGAR: European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology
- ESGE: European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
- ESGO: European Society of Gynaecological Oncology
- ESNM: European Society of Neurogastroenterology and Motility
- ESPCG: European Society for Primary Care Gastroenterology
- ESSO: European Society of Surgical Oncology
- IANS: International Anal Neoplasia Society
- ISSVD: International Society for the Study of Vulvovaginal Disease
- SAGES: Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons
- SIS-E: Surgical Infection Society Europe
- UEG: United European Gastroenterology