Concerns and challenges in flexible sigmoidoscopy screening

Costs and value of screening flexible sigmoidoscopy.

Patient satisfaction with screening flexible sigmoidoscopy.

BACKGROUND Screening flexible sigmoidoscopy is an underused cancer prevention procedure. Physicians often cite patient discomfort as a reason for not requesting sigmoidoscopy, but patient experiences and attitudes toward sigmoidoscopy have not been well studied. OBJECTIVE To measure patient satisfaction and the determinants of satisfaction with screening sigmoidoscopy. METHODS An instrument...

Flexible sigmoidoscopy screening: is once enough?

www.thelancet.com Published online February 21, 2017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(17)30542-1 1 Worldwide, colorectal cancer is the third most common incident cancer and the fourth leading cause of cancer death, with 1·4 million new cases and 700 000 deaths estimated in 2012—most of these from the developed world. Over the past three decades, several methods to screen for colorectal canc...

Flexible sigmoidoscopy for colorectal cancer screening in Canada.

1Departments of Internal Medicine and Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba; 2Department of Hematology and Oncology, CancerCare Manitoba; 3University of Manitoba IBD Clinical and Research Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba; 4Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition; University of Utah and Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City, Utah; 5Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatolog...

Colorectal-cancer incidence and mortality with screening flexible sigmoidoscopy.

BACKGROUND The benefits of endoscopic testing for colorectal-cancer screening are uncertain. We evaluated the effect of screening with flexible sigmoidoscopy on colorectal-cancer incidence and mortality. METHODS From 1993 through 2001, we randomly assigned 154,900 men and women 55 to 74 years of age either to screening with flexible sigmoidoscopy, with a repeat screening at 3 or 5 years, or t...