11. Boyar said the quickest and easiest exam is a sigmoidoscopy , done in the office. 12. Before that, most Medicare beneficiaries were eligible only for a cheaper test called sigmoidoscopy . 13. Flexible sigmoidoscopy takes 10 to 20 minutes. 14. Unlike colonoscopy, sigmoidoscopy can be done by a family practitioner, internist or nurse practitioner. 15. Currently, a colon examination called sigmoidoscopy is part of the recommended screening for colorectal cancer. 16. Sigmoidoscopy show characteristic white bodies of adult hanging from inflamed mucosa ( coconut cake rectum ).17. It's not like the old sigmoidoscopies , which were blunt instruments examining the lower colon. 18. A colonoscopy or sigmoidoscopy are forms of endoscopy that use a guided camera to view the rectum. 19. The most common method of colon cancer screening is flexible sigmoidoscopy because it is now covered by Medicare. 20. Even fewer, 2 percent, get the flexible sigmoidoscopy , another screening test recommended every five years.
