A sprawling European study suggests the benefits of the invasive test may be overestimated.
of getting colorectal cancer, and no significant reduction in the risk of cancer death.
Study researcher Michael Bretthauer, a gastroenterologist who leads the clinical effectiveness group at the University of Oslo in Norway,that he found the results disappointing, but physicians must follow the science. “So I think we have to embrace it. And we may have oversold the message for the last 10 years or so, and we have to wind it back a little.
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