Colonoscopy Significantly Reduces Death From Left-sided Colon Cancer But Not From Right-sided
Saturday, December 27, 2008 - 04:21
in Health & Medicine
A new study finds that colonoscopy is strongly associated with fewer deaths from colorectal cancer. However, the risk reduction appears to be entirely due to a reduction in deaths from left-sided cancers. According to the study, colonoscopy shows almost no mortality prevention benefit for cancer that develops in the right side of the colon.