Researchers retrospectively analysed data from 368 patients with MSI-H colon cancer across two academic centres. Patients ...

CT colonography (CTC), also referred to as virtual colonoscopy, has high sensitivity and represents a promising screening tool that has the potential to improve overall screening rates, if ...

A new study is projecting how radiation from computed tomography imaging​, or CT scans, could lead to future cancers.

CT colonography is a test that uses CT scans to check the large bowel (colon) and back passage (rectum). It’s also called a virtual colonoscopy. You have this test as an outpatient in the CT scanning ...

CT scans commonly taken to help doctors detect injury and disease may also come with an alarming risk - they may account for ...

Researchers from UC San Francisco have announced a study that found computed tomography, or CT scans, may account for as much as 5% of all cancers annually. This is comparative to the cancer risk from ...

How is CT colonography performed? CT colonography takes about 15 minutes. At the beginning of the procedure, the colon is filled with carbon dioxide or air with a tube introduced into the rectum. The ...