Early-age onset of colon cancer is on the rise. That makes screening and detection more important than ever, since early treatment saves lives. Unfortunately, screening rates are not quite where they ...

NEWARK, Del. — The Colon Health Center of Delaware has been selling an alternative to one of medicine’s most unloved procedures: the colonoscopy. Rather than insert several feet of tubing into the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Extensive cleansing of the bowel is not necessary for patients undergoing virtual colonoscopy, Dutch researchers report in the journal Radiology. Sign up here. Virtual ...

St. Louis, March 13, 2003 -- Surveying patients who were screened for colorectal cancer, investigators at the Siteman Cancer Center at Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish ...

If you’re between the ages of 45 and 85, you should have a colorectal cancer screening routine in place, per the American Cancer Society (ACS). But a colonoscopy—in which your doctor uses a special ...

Bay Area Gastroenterology, based in the Houston area, has announced it is offering virtual colonoscopy, according to a news release. “Unlike a standard optical colonoscopy, a virtual colonoscopy ...

A procedure that lets doctors find abnormal growths in the colon through 3-D computer-generated images is at least as accurate as a more invasive conventional colonoscopy, suggests research that was ...

Despite not being covered by most insurers, virtual colonoscopy is gaining favor among patients because of its non-invasive nature and among providers, as new research has indicated it is about as ...

Virtual colonoscopy — a cancer-detecting procedure that gives doctors a computer-generated 3-D view of the colon — is less reliable than previously thought and not ready for widespread use, ...

CHICAGO — Virtual colonoscopy, a cancer-detecting procedure that gives doctors a computer-generated 3-D view of the colon, is less reliable than previously thought and not ready for widespread use, ...

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