Colorectal cancer used to be considered a disease of older adults. That has changed. One in five diagnoses now occurs in someone under 55, and it has become a leading cause of cancer-related death in ...
Medicare covers screening colonoscopies at no cost, but removing a polyp triggers 15% coinsurance on physician, facility, anesthesia, and pathology charges separately. The Consolidated Appropriations ...
Propensity score matching (n=2161 per arm) showed higher adenoma detection with water exchange than air insufflation (57.9% vs 44.0%), yielding an NNT of 8 despite a high-performing comparator ...