Screening procedures that are currently recommended are for people at or over 50 years of age unless there is a family history of colorectal cancer when the screening should begin at age 40 and much younger if there are other risk factors listed in the above paragraph. You should have fecal occult blood testing annually and flexible sigmoidoscopy done every five years or colonscopy done every 10 years. The number of deaths is reduced in patients that have a positive fecal occult blood test followed by colonoscopy. If you have flexible sigmoidoscopy done and a polyp or other abnormality is found, then you should have colonoscopy done to fully look at the colon. Randomized controlled trials have proven that the flex.
Colonoscopy is the best screening procedure although it is much more costly to have done.
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