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Colon Cancer
Women's preference for female colonoscopists may impede colon cancer screening
September 15th, 2005
Women may be avoiding colon cancer screening because of the gender of their doctors, even though colon cancer causes a higher percentage of deaths among women each year in the United States than women diagnosed with breast cancer. In a study conducted by researchers at the Division of Gastroenterology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and published in the August issue of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (GIE) by the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE), 43% of the women who were asked their preference of a male or female endoscopist said female, while only 1.4% said male and the rest had no preference. When asked questions to...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-09-15)
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