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Nix later start for colonoscopy screens. (Study Findings).
SEATTLE -- Calls to begin screening colonoscopy in women a decade later than in men are off base, according to Dr. Philip S. Schoenfeld.
Current American College of Gastroenterology guidelines recommend that both women and men begin having screening colonoscopy every 10 years starting at age 50.
Critics claim that the ACG guidelines ought to be revised to recommend that screening colonoscopy begin at age 60 in women, since women develop colorectal polyps later in life than men. But this argument is ...
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