Although medical literature has shown computerized tomographic colonography and optical colonoscopy are both effective at detecting advanced adenomas, recent research indicates optical colonoscopy ...

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 ...

A new study, published in JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, examines different screening methods for colorectal cancer. 1. Researchers studied data from 16,087 subjects in a ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared Yoqneam, Israel-based Given Imaging’s PillCam COLON for use for patients after an incomplete optical colonoscopy, according to a Given Imaging news ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Risks for CRC and CRC-specific death were lower for 15 years in the group with a negative first colonoscopy.

Having had two optical and one virtual colonoscopy over the last 10 to 12 years, I read the article about the procedures with much interest ["Inside Out," April 28]. Two things became immediately ...

Quality assurance is a particular issue with guaiac fecal occult blood testing (gFOBT): Sensitivity and specificity appear highly dependent on brand, sample collection, preparation, and interpretation ...

HealthDay News — Screening average-risk individuals for colorectal cancer should begin at age 50 with a stool-based test, flexible sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy, according to a guidance statement from ...