Susan Hutfless, PhD, assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and of epidemiology at its Bloomberg School of Public Health, both in Baltimore, and coauthor of the study “Rates of infection after colonoscopy and osophagogastroduodenoscopy in ambulatory surgery centres in the USA” published in Gut.
Although a colonoscopy is worth it to screen for colon cancer, there’s an unexpected risk you ought to know about.
