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Colonoscopy - What's the Lowest Possible Effect?
In the US, that is not reflective of how colon cancer screening is typically done. A lot of gastroenterologists commented on this study saying that one of the metrics of quality, I guess, that they use to tell whether somebody is competent at doing colonoscopies is their rate of detecting things like polyps. And about a third of people of the endoscopist in this study had a substandard, what's called an adenoma detection rate. So there were no more reasons why people died from the scope, there wasn't perforation, there weren't bleeding. There are other fecal testing methods that can be used to test for certain evidence of cancer-related