A patient’s role in ensuring high quality colonoscopy
The American Cancer Society recently released important new data showing that the rate at which people are diagnosed with colon cancer in the U.S. has dropped 30% in the last ten years for those aged 50 and older. Much of this decline was attributed to the widespread uptake of colonoscopy screening. Colonoscopy is the only screening test that examines the entire colon and allows removal of precancerous polyps in the …
