Sentences with phrase «flexible sigmoidoscopy using»

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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.

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