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Colonoscopies are a dreaded rite of passage for many middle-age adults. The promise has been that if you endure the awkwardness and invasiveness of having a camera travel the length
A landmark study suggests the benefits of colonoscopies for cancer screening may be overestimated. The study found only meagre benefits for the group of people invited to get the procedure: an 18 per cent lower risk of getting colorectal cancer, and no significant reduction in the risk of cancer death.
A new study found that colonoscopies are not able to reduce the death rate among patients suffering from colon cancers as effectively as previously thought.
Norwegian researchers who tracked bowel cancer diagnoses and deaths say colonoscopy screening is not a 'magic bullet'. Offering a colonoscopy to people only prevented a fifth of cases.
In an intention-to-screen analysis, 10-year results from the NordICC trial show that colonoscopy reduces the risk of colorectal cancer by only 18%.