| 11. | Boyar said the quickest and easiest exam is a sigmoidoscopy, done in the office.
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| 12. | Before that, most Medicare beneficiaries were eligible only for a cheaper test called sigmoidoscopy.
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| 13. | Flexible sigmoidoscopy takes 10 to 20 minutes.
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| 14. | Unlike colonoscopy, sigmoidoscopy can be done by a family practitioner, internist or nurse practitioner.
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| 15. | Currently, a colon examination called sigmoidoscopy is part of the recommended screening for colorectal cancer.
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| 16. | Sigmoidoscopy show characteristic white bodies of adult hanging from inflamed mucosa ( coconut cake rectum ).
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| 17. | It's not like the old sigmoidoscopies, which were blunt instruments examining the lower colon.
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| 18. | A colonoscopy or sigmoidoscopy are forms of endoscopy that use a guided camera to view the rectum.
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| 19. | The most common method of colon cancer screening is flexible sigmoidoscopy because it is now covered by Medicare.
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| 20. | Even fewer, 2 percent, get the flexible sigmoidoscopy, another screening test recommended every five years.
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