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According to the new guidelines, the most effective follow-up procedures are colonoscopy (in which a physician uses a flexible tube to look at the inside of your bowel) and regular visits with a physician (who can coordinate your postsurgical treatment, answer questions and investigate new symptoms). Benson and his colleagues concluded that patients should undergo a colonoscopy three years after the one that was done at the time of surgery, provided that all cancers and polyps were removed. Why not sooner? Repeat colonoscopies are most useful for finding a new tumor unrelated to the old one. Most recurring colon...
...Dutch physician Willem Kolff invents the dialysis machine, used to cleanse the blood when a patient's kidneys malfunction...
...Canadian physician Frederick Banting and colleagues find a treatment for diabetes: insulin isolated from the pancreas of fetal calves...
...Greek-American physician George Papanicolaou develops the Pap smear, a screening test for cervical and uterine cancer...
...British physician Douglas Bevis describes amniocentesis, a prenatal test for genetic abnormalities...