| 41. | Current tests for colon cancer include fecal blood testing, sigmoidoscopy and colonoscopy.
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| 42. | Medicare recipients are also now entitled to a screening colonoscopy every 10 years.
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| 43. | Farnham found the traditional colonoscopy the easiest to endure.
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| 44. | In a virtual colonoscopy, patients also take laxatives but are not sedated.
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| 45. | Virtual colonoscopy detected both malignant polyps, but conventional colonoscopy only found one.
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| 46. | Virtual colonoscopy detected both malignant polyps, but conventional colonoscopy only found one.
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| 47. | Participating radiologists were required to have performed at least 10 previous virtual colonoscopies.
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| 48. | Colonoscopy has long been considered the most effective way to detect colon cancer.
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| 49. | A positive gFOBT with subsequent negative colonoscopy may lead to an upper endoscopy.
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| 50. | On colonoscopy or sigmoidoscopy polyps that vary in shape or size are present.
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