Sentences with phrase «flexible sigmoidoscopy for»

Editorial: Flexible Sigmoidoscopy for Colorectal Cancer Screening: More Evidence, Persistent Ironies

Not exact matches

Challenges highlighted for the year ahead were: Moving forward on piloting flexible sigmoidoscopy bowel screening; a national awareness campaign on bowel cancer; improving diagnostic capacity and productivity; the needs of survivors in different post-treatment phases; providing information to commissioners and providers about patients» experience of care; giving support to tackle issues such as information provision and better communication.

In an accompanying editorial, Allan S. Brett, M.D., of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, S.C., writes that while there may be debate over the use of flexible sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy for colorectal cancer screening, another screening technique, stool DNA testing, might render this debate moot in the not - toodistant future.

Removal of adenomas by colonoscopy or flexible sigmoidoscopy (a thin flexible lighted tube used for inspection of the inside of the rectum and lower part of the colon) has been endorsed as a primary prevention tool for colorectal cancer, according to background information in the article.

For now, however, the muddled landscape of colorectal cancer screening in the United States continues, and the place of flexible sigmoidoscopy among screening tools remains unsettled.»

A re-analysis of all - cause mortality in the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) evidence review for colorectal cancer screening found that flexible sigmoidoscopy reduces risk for death.

The authors conclude that if the goal of screening is to reduce the risk for death, then the evidence supporting flexible sigmoidoscopy is substantially stronger than that of other screening methods.

They found that looking at the cohorts as two separate groups, rather than aggregating them, the relative risk for all - cause mortality favored screening with flexible sigmoidoscopy.

Assist with colonoscopies and flexible sigmoidoscopies; responsible for preparing all scopes for use.