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CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, Vol 18, 88-91, Copyright © 1968 by American Cancer Society

The Value of Proctosigmoidoscopic Examinations

¹ The Department of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Lahey Clinic Foundation; Department of Surgery, New England Baptist and New England Deaconess Hospitals, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Staff Assistant, Department of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Lahey Clinic Foundation; Department of Surgery, New England Baptist and New England Deaconess Hospitals.

1. The value and practicability of sigmoidoscopy in the total medical survey of patients have been emphasized.

2. Attention is directed to the sometimes failure on the part of physicians to treat minor anorectal problems of the patient, once cancer is ruled out.

3. While the subject of benign polyps as premalignant lesions remains controversial, the authors believe that all polyps should be removed when first detected in good-risk patients.