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Colonoscopies Done By GI Doc More Accurate

Date: 2/23/2010
Source: Blisstree » Diseases & Conditions

If you go for a colonoscopy to check out the health of your bowels (colon), it may be in your best interest to ensure the doctor who is performing the test is a gastroenterologist, a GI doctor.
While general practitioners can and do perform some colonoscopies, they don’t have the formal training of the GI doctors and can easily miss something that may otherwise have been noted.
According to a study published in the Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, GI doctors who performed colonoscopies had a higher colorectal cancer detection rate than did other doctors.
Researchers looked at 110,402 residents who lived in the [...]

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Colonoscopies Done By GI Doc More Accurate

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