Flexible sigmoidoscopy screening: is once enough?

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Paul F Pinsky. Lancet. 2017.

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. 2017 Apr 1;389(10076):1275-1277.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)30542-1. Epub 2017 Feb 22.

¹ National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. Electronic address: pp4f@nih.gov.

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