Virtual colonoscopies help identify additional cancers outside of the colon, study suggests

Friday, October 22, 2010 - 11:20 in Health & Medicine

Although the medical community has already accepted that colorectal cancer (CRC) screening is cost effective and saves lives, researchers have found that computed tomography colonography (CTC or virtual colonoscopy) not only identifies CRC but also doubles the yield of identifying significant early extracolonic (outside the colon) lesions, resulting in lives saved, according to a study in the September issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology (www.ajronline.org)...

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