Gastroenterology Fellow
Division of Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease
University of Southern California
Los Angeles
Division of Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease
University of Southern California
Los Angeles
In the half-century since the first colonoscopy was performed in 1969, the procedure has become a mainstay for managing colorectal cancer screening and assessing bowel symptoms.1 In the United States alone, approximately 16 million colonoscopies are