frequently diagnosed cancer in Italy: colorectal cancer. This examination is generally performed after a positive result on a fecal occult blood test, a test included in regional early detection programs for this serious disease.
Although this type of examination is performed with the utmost care and is becoming less uncomfortable, it is still considered potentially painful and embarrassing due to its undeniably invasive nature. A colonoscope, a flexible tube equipped with a microcamera, is manually inserted into the anal canal.
Medicine has continued to make significant progress in this area.
