A recent study published in the American Journal of Roentgenology examined radiologists’ preferences for optical colonoscopy or CT colonography as colorectal cancer screening modalities. The study ...

March 2, 2012 — Proponents of virtual computed tomographic colonography (CTC) are banking on a new assessment of their original pivotal trial to persuade federal regulators to reconsider their ...

Decrease in CRC Resections Tied to Medicare-Covered Screening For older patients who undergo computed tomography colonography (CTC), the rates of referral to colonoscopy and prevalence of advanced ...

CT colonography allows radiologists to predict, with a high degree of confidence, whether or not a polyp needs to be evaluated through colonoscopy or removed through polypectomy, according to a study ...

CT colonography is a less invasive, better targeted and sufficiently accurate alternative to colonoscopy for colorectal cancer (CRC) screening in the general population. Daniele Regge and colleagues ...

In this second U.S. multisite study of computed tomographic (CT) colonography, 615 adults (50 or older) who had been referred to nine centers (8 U.S. and 1 U.K.) for various clinical indications ...

Leesburg, VA, March 12, 2021--According to an open-access article in ARRS' American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), compared with multi-target stool-DNA (mt-sDNA) and fecal immunochemical test (FIT), ...

Computed tomography (CT) colonography is a more cost-effective and more clinically effective method for colorectal cancer screening, compared to stool DNA testing (mt-sDNA), new research published in ...

Bethesda, Maryland (July 1, 2005) – The risk of developing cancer as a result of being exposed to X-rays during computed tomography colonography (also known as "virtual colonoscopy" or CT colonography ...

Rates of colon and rectal cancers are rising quickly among young people — from 1991 to 2014, rectal cancer rates for people between the ages of 20 and 49 doubled. According to one analysis, someone ...

Compared to stool DNA testing, researchers found that CT colonography is a cost-saving and clinically effective method for colorectal cancer screening, according to a study was published today in ...

Pickhardt and colleagues' results showed that CRC prevention via screen detection of AN was highest with CTC, followed by mt- sDNA, and lowest with FIT due to the differing TPR and PPV, although ...