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Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology 2, 341–342 (1 August 2005) | doi:10.1038/ncpgasthep0228

Colonoscopy versus sigmoidoscopy for colorectal cancer screening in average-risk women

Schoenfeld P et al. (2005) Colonoscopic screening of average-risk women for colorectal screening. N Engl J Med 352: 2061–2068 In this tandem study to the Veterans Affairs (VA) Cooperative Study 380, Schoenfeld and colleagues investigated whether flexible sigmoidoscopy would be a reasonable alternative to colonscopy in asymptomatic women referred for colon cancer screening.