Controversy Over Colonoscopy Effectiveness

Doctors push back against European study that casts doubt on the benefits of a ______.

A ______ is a widely recommended tool for cancer screening that involves putting a scope into the colon to look for potentially cancerous growths.

Sometimes these slow-growing ______ — or adenomas — would have turned into cancer, so by looking periodically and removing any polyps, the procedure serves as both a screening tool for cancer and an intervention to prevent a tumor from developing in the first place.

Research going back more than a decade has shown that ______ can save lives;

A 2018 study from Kaiser Permanente, for example, found a 67% reduction in cancer deaths among people who got a screening ______.

The topline findings of this week's NEJM study point to a mere 18% reduction in ______ cancer among thousands of men and women in Europe who were 'invited' to get a colonoscopy.

A ______ will only work if a patient gets one

The risk of developing colon cancer decreased by about ______%

The American Society for Gastrointestinal ______ is a leading group of GI doctors

According to Bret Petersen, ______ is still the gold standard in detecting and preventing colorectal cancer

The American Cancer Society has a ______ Scientific Officer named Dr. William Dahut

The study's participants were screened sometime between ______ to 2014