The colonic site with maximum inflammation was determined for each patient. Conclusions: Sigmoidoscopy is not sufficient for evaluating inflammation in UC patients. In particular, colonoscopy is ...

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These could be a colonoscopy - a procedure which uses a camera inside a long tube to look inside the whole bowel - or a flexible sigmoidoscopy, which looks at part of it. More than 90% of people ...

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These include fecal occult blood testing and multi-target stool DNA tests, which examine stool samples for signs of colorectal cancer, and flexible sigmoidoscopy, which only examines part of the colon ...

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third-leading cause of cancer-related deaths among men and the fourth among women in the ...

You could also simply do a sigmoidoscopy, but that will only explore the left part of your colon. What if you have a cancerous lesion on the right part of your colon? FOBT (fecal occult blood test ...

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