In this tandem study to the Veterans Affairs (VA) Cooperative Study 380, Schoenfeld and colleagues investigated whether flexible sigmoidoscopy would be a reasonable alternative to colonscopy in ...

OAK BROOK, Ill. – October 26, 2009 – Researchers from Taiwan report in a new study that unsedated colonoscopy for primary colorectal cancer screening is well accepted in a majority of patients.

Flexible sigmoidoscopy (FS) is a procedure carried out at a hospital or outpatient center that allows the visualization of the rectum and sigmoid colon. This procedure might be suggested for screening ...

In March 2013, NHS England extended its national Bowel Cancer Screening Programme to include ‘one-off’ Flexible Sigmoidoscopy screening (NHS Bowel Scope Screening, BSS) for men and women aged 55. With ...

Flexible sigmoidoscopy (FS) is a medical technique that allows for the visualization of the lining of the gut, specifically the rectum and a part of the colon (up to approximately 60 cm). It is ...

A colonoscopy is an exam that lets your physician see your entire colon. Before the test, your health care team will give you instructions for how to clear your colon of any stool. This process is ...

The risk of perforation to the colon after a sigmoidoscopy, although small, is about half the risk of a perforation after a colonoscopy, according to a new study comparing the two procedures used for ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The protective effect of a single flexible sigmoidoscopy screening in older ...

One-time screening with flexible sigmoidoscopy reduced colorectal cancer (CRC) incidence and mortality by about 25% over two decades, according to long-term follow-up of a randomized U.K. study. Among ...

Although colonoscopy is promoted widely in the U.S. for colorectal cancer screening, no completed large-scale randomized trials have been performed to compare flexible sigmoidoscopy with colonoscopy ...

We carried out an analysis of all patients who underwent either colonoscopy or flexible sigmoidoscopy at the Siriraj GI Endoscopy center, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, ...