The New England journal of medicine
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Multicenter Study Comparative Study
Colonoscopic screening of average-risk women for colorectal neoplasia.
Veterans Affairs (VA) Cooperative Study 380 showed that some advanced colorectal neoplasias (i.e., adenomas at least 1 cm in diameter, villous adenomas, adenomas with high-grade dysplasia, or cancer) in men would be missed with the use of flexible sigmoidoscopy but detected by colonoscopy. In a tandem study, we examined the yield of screening colonoscopy in women. ⋯ Colonoscopy may be the preferred method of screening for colorectal cancer in women.