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.
Two weeks later I went in
for my
sigmoidoscopy and the doctor was unable to find traces of my flare.
Others who undergo a colonscopy or
sigmoidoscopy are put on a pre-operative liquid diet
for about 24 hours in order to blush out the bowel system and put as little strain on the digestive system as possible.
Assist with colonoscopies and flexible
sigmoidoscopies; responsible
for preparing all scopes
for use.