| 31. | Last year she began performing the exams herself, and two medical assistants took over management of the sigmoidoscopy room.
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| 32. | Currently, colon cancer is evaluated through sigmoidoscopies and colonoscopies _ devices that physicans use to visually examine the colon.
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| 33. | Given that many people already shun sigmoidoscopy, there may not be great enthusiasm for an even more invasive test.
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| 34. | Altogether, between 20 percent to 32 percent of men with advanced growths would thus be overlooked by sigmoidoscopy alone.
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| 35. | To pick up polyps missed by the occult blood test, experts recommend a procedure called flexible sigmoidoscopy every five years.
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| 36. | The same goes for other questions now being investigated : does examining the colon with sigmoidoscopy screening prevent colon cancer deaths?
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| 37. | Current options include checking for blood in the stool as well as more invasive procedures known as colonoscopy and flexible sigmoidoscopy.
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| 38. | The four main screening tests are fecal occult blood testing, flexible sigmoidoscopy, colonoscopy, and stool DNA screening test.
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| 39. | 1964-Microenema containing sodium citrate, sodium laurylsulphoacetate and sorbitol has been tested in preparation of the bowel for sigmoidoscopy.
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| 40. | Colonoscopy is preferred over sigmoidoscopy for this, as it provides better observation of the common right-side location of polyps.
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