Gauging Risk For Colorectal Cancer Helps To Determine Screening Test

While colonoscopy has become widely used for colorectal cancer screening, nearly two-thirds of screening colonoscopies show no cancer or pre-cancerous polyps. In an editorial in the October issue of the journal Gastroenterology, Thomas F. Imperiale, M.D., professor of medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine and a Regenstrief Institute, Inc. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Colorectal Cancer on October 31st, 2007