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Article: New tests planned.(computer tomography colonoscopy)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Cancer Weekly
- Article date:
- June 11, 2002
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2002 JUN 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The radiologist peers into Pauline Morse's colon, pausing to inspect a fleshy fold before moving deeper into the shadowy twists and turns.
But Morse, 73, isn't lying on a table during this intimate tour of her insides - she's at home. The images were created with a virtual colonoscopy - a new procedure that relies on a computer scan instead of a scope to reveal cancer or suspicious growths.
Morse is among the early participants in the most comprehensive study yet to directly compare virtual or computer tomography colonoscopy to traditional colonoscopy, the gold standard for colorectal cancer screening. The ...