CT Scans Outperform DNA Stool Tests In Colon Cancer Screening, Study Says By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterFRIDAY, June 13, 2025 (HealthDay News) — CT scans might be able to prevent more colon ...

December 3, 2008 (Chicago, Illinois) — Extracolonic structures can be visualized on computed tomography (CT) colonography, or virtual colonoscopy, with the right software. That means that screening ...

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 published in Radiology.

Leesburg, VA, Nov. 23, 2016 -- CT has good sensitivity for the detection of colon cancers with tumors that have spread beyond the bowel wall, however, it remains a challenge in detecting nodal ...

Last week I saw a film starring Ricky Gervais portraying a dentist who elected to have a general anaesthetic for a colonoscopy because he wanted to be quite sure that he was fully asleep while they ...

Colonoscopy is an effective screening tool to detect polyps in the colon that could be cancerous. But the problem is that it requires significant prep work on the part of the patient — you have to ...

Stanford (Calif.) Medicine has renewed its research partnership with GE HealthCare to develop new clinical pathways and imaging solutions through the use of total-body PET/CT. Through their ...

Images of positive CT colonography (CTC) screening examination result in an asymptomatic 67-year-old man. Three-dimensional colon map from CTC (left image) shows the location of two sigmoid polyps ...