Significance of Distal Polyps Detected With Flexible Sigmoidoscopy in Asymptomatic Patients

Matter, Stephen E.; Campbell, Donald R.

doi:10.1001/archinte.1992.00400210018004

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“…All patients with polyps were offered colonoscopy if there were no contraindications. We were not in a position to limit access to further investigation to individuals with adenomas or those with adenomas at greater risk of malignant transformation, such as those with larger polyps 3–5 . However, this would clearly be an issue requiring careful cost‐benefit analysis if a national programme was introduced.…”

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Training general practitioners in flexible sigmoidoscopy to screen for colorectal cancer

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Barbaro

et al. 2001

ANZ Journal of Surgery

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Although the three trainees and their supervisors did not consider that the GPs were adequately trained after 50 unassisted procedures, training was adversely affected by limited resources within the Victorian public hospital system. Screening by FOBT and FS was considered to be acceptable by the patients undergoing these procedures. Existing facilities are not adequate if GPs are to be trained in FS as part of a national CRC screening program.

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“…The expected prevalence of CRC or adenomas in asymptomatic subjects over the age of 50 undergoing flexible sigmoidoscopy (FS) is approximately 15% 4 . Approximately 20% of these patients also have a more proximal adenoma 5 . Case control studies have suggested a reduced mortality from CRC after flexible sigmoidsocopy 6 .…”

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