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Can bowel cancer be diagnosed through a barium enema and a colonoscopy? help please?
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Yes: Either or colonoscopy is the best tool accuracy more than 95% barium enema use to be the tool but the accuracy and false positive and negative are not enough to depend on colonoscopy can discover polyps too small to be seen by barium enema and can have it removed at the same time.
Answered 10/21/2015
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