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Article: Quality Colonoscopy Exam Remains Best Strategy for Detection of Polyps and Cancers According to Experts From the American College of Gastroenterology
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- December 16, 2008
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To: NATIONAL EDITORS
Contact: Anne-Louise Oliphant of American College of
Gastroenterology, +1-301-263-9000, mediaonly@acg.gi.org
BETHESDA, Md., Dec. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Publication of
a Canadian study on colonoscopy's impact on reducing colon cancer
deaths suggests a lower impact on mortality than previously
reported. Physician experts from the American College of
Gastroenterology urge patients and the public to recognize that even
if the assumptions and design of this case-control study have
produced accurate data, colonoscopy remains the best available
option for detection of precancerous colon polyps and the only test
with the potential to prevent colorectal cancer by removing ...