News

14 Dec 2006

Doctors Who Take More Time With Colonoscopy Find More Tumours

A new US study suggests that doctors who take more time (more than 6 minutes!!) to look for cancerous and pre-cancerous tumours in the bowel using colonoscopy tend to be better at detection than those who take less time. The results indicated that those procedures that lasted an average of 6 minutes or less tended to detect fewer polyps, both cancerous and pre-cancerous, than those that took more time.

The study is published in the New England Journal of Medicine.