The Visible Humans: Coming Of Age
...w screening method where they can now do a virtual colonoscopy for a fraction of the time, cost, and discomfort of a "real" colonoscopy. Using a special software package based on research done with the Visible Human dataset, physicians look for lesions or polyps in the patient's CAT-scan. Wake Forest's David Vin...... Medical Center. "It should be considered prior to colonoscopy in patientswith acute colonic pseudo-obstruction who have not responded to conservativemanagement."...Annals of Internal Medicine, Tip Sheet, October 17, 2000
...www.annals.org on October 17, 2000. Study finds colonoscopy cost-effective in screening for colorectal cancer ... allows examination of the rectum and lower colon; colonoscopy allows examination of the entire colon. Using a computer simulation, researchers considered administ...New medical system for colon cancer screening
...the precursor of cancer. In contrast, conventional colonoscopy is invasive with a risk of puncturing the colon and requires that the patient be sedated. The negative perception of this method and the reluctance of the general public to get screened play a major role in colorectal cancer being the second leading ...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, February 19, 2002
...rectal cancer is high despite regular surveillance colonoscopy after treatment of the initial cancer, a new analysis of data from three studies found (Article,p. 261). The incidence of second colorectal cancer was higher among patients with a history of colon cancer than the incidence of first colorectal cancer ...Support for colorectal cancer screening
...a more suitable tool for population screening than colonoscopy (advocated in the USA), because it is safer, cheap...uring screening, and individuals were referred for colonoscopy if high-risk polyps were found. Around 170,000 individuals were randomised. Attendance among those a...Study: Katie Couric wakes up America on colonoscopy screening
...arch of 2000, when Couric underwent a live, on-air colonoscopy on the Today Show, two years after the tragic deat... observational study, the U-M researchers examined colonoscopy rates drawn from a database of 400 endoscopists nationwide, as well as rates from a Midwestern manag...New wireless imaging test identified the cause of gastrointestinal bleeding in majority of patients
...ntestine an organ which is 15-20 feet long while colonoscopy can only see the last three or four feet. The video capsule (produced by Given Imaging, Ltd.), on the other hand, was engineered to view most of the GI tract via a wireless endoscopic approach. About the size of a large megavitamin, the capsule con...New diagnostic faecal test could identify colorectal cancer
... and screening methods that are more reliable than colonoscopy and faecal-blood assessment are needed for earlier disease detection. Nicholas Coleman and colleagues from the MRC Cancer Cell Unit, Cambridge, UK, aim to develop a non-invasive, stool-based assessment that can identify a specific protein - minichrom...Adults over 50 should be screened for colorectal cancer, US group says
...ble sigmoidoscopy. The Task Force also recommended colonoscopy but says the evidence that it reduces death from colorectal cancer is indirect. The Task Force did not recommend a specific screening test, saying that patients and their physicians should discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the tests and de...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, July 16, 2002
...ble sigmoidoscopy. The Task Force also recommended colonoscopy but says the evidence that it reduces death from colorectal cancer is indirect. The Task Force did not recommend a specific screening test, saying instead that patients and their physicians should discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the tests...Swallowing a tiny imaging capsule aids in diagnosis of obscure gastrointestinal bleeding
...he small intestine that would not be detected with colonoscopy or upper GI endoscopy. In wireless capsule endoscopy, the patient swallows a tiny imaging capsule that incorporates a light source, video camera, battery, antenna, and radio transmitter. Images of the intestinal tract are transmitted twice each seco...Smoking found to be an important risk factor for colorectal polyps
...x-smokers, and 848 non-smokers who had a screening colonoscopy between December 1999 and April 2002. In addition to noting the colonoscopy results, the researchers examined data for age, sex, family, and personal history of colon cancer, s...Screening the general population for colorectal cancer
... tested." Current techniques to detect cancer, a colonoscopy or sigmoidoscopy, are effective for individuals but they are too expensive, with a high rate of associated complications linked to these techniques, for the general population. Dr Andr encouraged anyone who is concerned by symptoms such as blood in ...Unproven prostate cancer screening more popular than valuable colon test
... cancer death rate, and flexible sigmoidoscopy and colonoscopy could prove even better. Colorectal and prostate cancer causes nearly the same number of deaths each year in the United States 27,800 and 30,200 respectively. However, according to Sirovich, it is colorectal cancer that robs more living years from...Colonoscopy far more cost-effective against colon cancer than promising Cox II drugs, study predicts
...ns over 50 one more reason not to put off having a colonoscopy to check for colon cancer and its forerunners. Not...omputer model to compare the cost-effectiveness of colonoscopy and other colon cancer screening procedures with that of Cox-II inhibitors, a class of drugs current...U-M study: Physicians perceive health care cost savings line pockets of insurance companies
...hoose flexible sigmoidoscopy or the more expensive colonoscopy to screen for colon cancer? Should a healthy 22-year-old woman with no history of cervical cancer receive a Pap smear every year or every three years? Should women with normal risk of breast cancer begin having mammograms at age 40 or 50? Slightly mo...Study: Couric's colonoscopy caused cross-country climb in colon cancer checks
...BC television personality Katie Couric underwent a colonoscopy live on national television in March 2000, she did...chives of Internal Medicine, the team reports that colonoscopy rates nationwide jumped more than 20 percent in the days and months after Couric's on-air test on th...Differences in cancer screening rates reported
...graphy for breast cancer; fecal occult blood test, colonoscopy or sigmoidoscopy for colorectal cancer; and the PSA (prostate specific antigen) test for prostate cancer. Other report authors are E. Richard Brown, director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and professor of public health; Neetu Chawla, ...New scientific advances in gastroenterology presented at college's 68th annual meeting
...igh prevalence of premalignant polyps; and Virtual colonoscopy vs. conventional colonoscopy Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Two studies examine the global impact of IBS on business, reviewing it...