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New Colonoscopic Technologies for Colorectal Cancer Screening

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Colorectal Cancer Screening

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Colonoscopy is an imperfect and operator-dependent technology with regard to detection of colorectal neoplasia. The evidence for operator dependency is overwhelming, and the extent of variation is alarming [1–10]. These detection problems with colonoscopy are particularly problematic, given that the technology is used for almost all colorectal cancer detection and prevention [11]. In the United States and some European countries, colonoscopy is used as a primary screening modality, and in essentially all countries it is used to evaluate other positive screening tests, including fecal occult blood testing, flexible sigmoidoscopy, barium enema, CT colonography, and in the near future serum-based markers for colorectal cancer.

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Rex, D.K. (2011). New Colonoscopic Technologies for Colorectal Cancer Screening. In: Anderson, MD, J., Kahi, MD, C. (eds) Colorectal Cancer Screening. Clinical Gastroenterology. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60761-398-5_7

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