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Article: Virtual colonoscopy on a par with traditional method
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- December 2, 2003
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A new study finds that virtual colonoscopy, a method that uses a
C.T. scanner for colon cancer screening, can be just as effective as
traditional colonoscopy in finding polyps, the mushroomlike growths
from which most cancers arise.
Patients having the 15-minute virtual screening test simply lie
down and hold their breath for about 10 seconds, exhale, then hold
their breath again while a C.T. scanner X-rays their colons, creating
detailed, three-dimensional images of the walls. With traditional
colonoscopy, patients are sedated while a doctor threads a long
flexible tube into the colon, spending half an hour viewing its walls
in much the same sort of detail. Then they wait in a recovery ...
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