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Article: Colon cancer screening more effective earlier in day, UCLA study finds.
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- November 22, 2009
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The effectiveness of a screening colonoscopy may depend on the time of day it is performed. According to a new UCLA study, early-morning colonoscopies yielded more polyps per patient than later screenings, and fewer polyps were found hour by hour as the day progressed.
The findings, published in the November issue of the journal Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, point to the need for more research in this area to possibly improve outcomes for colonoscopy procedures. While the current study was done at a single institution, the clinical setup is much the same in other practice settings, the researchers said.
"Our research was conducted at an ...