One-Time Screening for Colorectal Cancer with Combined Fecal Occult-Blood Testing and Examination of the Distal Colon - Concepedia

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One-Time Screening for Colorectal Cancer with Combined Fecal Occult-Blood Testing and Examination of the Distal Colon

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2001

Year

David A. Lieberman, William V. Harford, Dennis J. Ahnen, Dawn Provenzale, Stephen J. Sontag, Thomas Schnell, Gregorio Chejfec, Donald R. Campbell, Theodore E. Durbin, John H. Bond,

New England Journal of Medicine

Abstract

One-time screening with both a fecal occult-blood test with rehydration and sigmoidoscopy fails to detect advanced colonic neoplasia in 24 percent of subjects with the condition.

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