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The bane of adults over 50 - the colonoscopy procedure to detect precancerous lesions in the large intestine (colon) - will become obsolete within the coming decade thanks to any of five innovative endoscopic technologies, four of which have been developed by Israelis.
This was the prediction on Thursday of Prof. Shimon Bar-Meir, chief of the gastroenterology institute at Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer and a faculty member at Tel Aviv University's Sackler Medical School. He was speaking at the 18th Israel Medical Association World Fellowship International Conference at Jerusalem's Inbal Hotel.
The conference, which will be held through Sunday with participation by some 150 Jewish physicians from abroad and 50 from Israel, is focused on "Advanced Technologies in Medicine."
Within 10 years, colonoscopy - in which a tube encasing a tiny camera is pushed into the rectum and colon under sedation after the patient drinks a large amount of unpleasant liquids to make the interior visible - will not be used anymore or even be available, Bar-Meir said.
"That is because we will have an endoscopic alternative" to the method for detecting this type of cancer, which is a leading cause of death, he said.
The bane of adults over 50 - the colonoscopy procedure to detect precancerous lesions in the large intestine (colon) - will become obsolete within the coming decade thanks to any of five innovative endoscopic technologies, four of which have been developed by Israelis.
This was the prediction on Thursday of Prof. Shimon Bar-Meir, chief of the gastroenterology institute at Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer and a faculty member at Tel Aviv University's Sackler Medical School. He was speaking at the 18th Israel Medical Association World Fellowship International Conference at Jerusalem's Inbal Hotel.
The conference, which will be held through Sunday with participation by some 150 Jewish physicians from abroad and 50 from Israel, is focused on "Advanced Technologies in Medicine."
Within 10 years, colonoscopy - in which a tube encasing a tiny camera is pushed into the rectum and colon under sedation after the patient drinks a large amount of unpleasant liquids to make the interior visible - will not be used anymore or even be available, Bar-Meir said.
"That is because we will have an endoscopic alternative" to the method for detecting this type of cancer, which is a leading cause of death, he said.
