To determine the adequacy of the procedure among various age groups, Louise Walter, MD, a staff physician in geriatrics at SFVAMC and assistant professor of medicine at University of California, San ...

The number of sigmoidoscopy examinations that fail to attain an adequate depth of insertion increases progressively along with advancing age in men and women, according to a new study by a researcher ...

Flexible sigmoidoscopy provides substantial protection from colorectal cancer for up to 17 years, a study published in The Lancent shows. England-based Imperial College London Professor Wendy Atkin, ...

Dublin, April 08, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Colorectal Cancer Screening and Diagnostics Market - A Global and Regional Analysis: Focus on Type, End User, Region, and Competitive Landscape, Pricing ...

A widely used screening tool for colon cancer, sigmoidoscopy, misses precancerous growths in almost two-thirds of women — a disturbing failure rate twice as high as the one seen in men, a ...

A widely used screening tool for colon cancer, sigmoidoscopy, misses precancerous growths in almost two-thirds of women — a disturbing failure rate twice as high as the one seen in men, a ...

November 3, 2011 (National Harbor, Maryland/Washington, DC) — The risk for both distal (left-sided) and proximal (right-sided) colorectal cancer (CRC) dropped after older patients had colonoscopy, ...

Forty percent of all colorectal cancers could be prevented if people underwent regular colonoscopy screenings, according to a new study from the Harvard School of Public Health. According to the ...

BOSTON – A widely used screening tool for colon cancer (search), sigmoidoscopy, misses precancerous growths in almost two-thirds of women — a disturbing failure rate twice as high as the one seen in ...

The American College of Gastroenterology agrees with your Aug. 17 editorial “Colon Cancer Prevention” that patients should not abandon colonoscopies based on the studies cited in this editorial. In ...

A provocative new analysis suggests that the colonoscopies many people get to detect and eliminate colon cancer before it can kill them may be no more effective than a less invasive (and cheaper) ...

The number of sigmoidoscopy examinations that fail to attain an adequate depth of insertion increases progressively along with advancing age in men and women, according to a new study by a researcher ...