Widely used test overlooks many potential colon cancers in women
Thursday, May 19, 2005
BOSTON -- A widely used screening tool for colon cancer, sigmoidoscopy, misses precancerous growths in almost two-thirds of women -- a disturbing failure rate twice as high as the one seen in men, a government-backed study found.
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