|
|
Article: SCREENING FOR COLON CANCER: SHOULD YOU HAVE A VIRTUAL COLONOSCOPY?(CNY)
- Article from:
- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- November 28, 2006
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2006 All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of The Herald Co. by the Gale Group, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Byline: Amber Smith Health and fitness editor
It's a rite of passage, and a recommendation from the cancer experts, for when we turn 50: Time to have a doctor peer through the folds of our bowels in search of polyps that may lead to colon cancer.
For most of us, that means a colonoscopy.
The process of a scope being inserted into the rectum and snaked through the large intestine is the most effective screening test for colon cancer, but it requires sedation, a day of fasting and drinking laxatives. While not painful, it's not the most enjoyable way to ring in the fifth decade.
Those of us who go through with it do so because we know ...