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SAN DIEGO -- Flexible sigmoidoscopy as a screening tool for colorectal cancer is losing its appeal in primary care offices because of significant barriers to its use, Dr. Gregory Ginsberg said at the annual meeting of the American College of Physicians.
"There are difficulties with training, maintaining skills, and affording to maintain equipment and perform high-level disinfection" of the sigmoidoscopy equipment, as well as the expenses associated with biopsy said Dr. Ginsberg, director of endoscopic services for...
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