Latest Virtual colonoscopy Stories
By Liz Szabo "Virtual" colonoscopies are about as reliable as more invasive procedures for finding cancer and polyps, according to the largest study of its kind, published in today's New England Journal of Medicine. The study of 2,600 adults found that virtual exams -- which use CT scans, or computed tomography -- found 90% of patients with cancer or polyps, which are raised growths that sometimes become malignant. The study, performed at 15 centers around the country, confirms the...
To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Anne Brownsey of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, +1-630-570-5635, abrownsey@asge.org Results of theNational CTColonography Trial Raise Questions for Patients OAK BROOK,Ill.,Sept. 17/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --Results of the National CT Colonography Trial, published in the September 18 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, show improvements in the technology's ability to diagnose intermediate- to large-sized polyps in the colon, but...
By SHANTEE WOODARDS Staff Writer By medical standards, Margaret Divine was doing everything right to reduce her risk of colorectal cancer. She made sure to get a colonoscopy every three to five years, which is generally recommended for people age 50 and older. But when she was tested in April, doctors detected a precancerous polyp. If it was left untreated it would have developed into colorectal cancer. Since Mrs. Divine belonged to Anne Arundel County Department of Health's LifeScreen...
By Chandra Devi ROYAL Philips Electronics has been at the forefront of key developments in computed tomography (CT) technology throughout the last decade. It has contributed to the advancements in CT in terms of the amount of data captured in a single rotation of the X-ray tube. Philips was the first to introduce 16-slice and then 40-slice CT scanners. Besides developing 64-slice scanners, the company last year introduced the 256-slice CT scanner, which enables whole organ imaging in a...
By Cochran, Diane It's a procedure people don't even want to talk about, let alone have done, but there might finally be a way to make getting a colonoscopy more tolerable. Virtual colonoscopy uses a CT scanner to examine the colon, from outside the body, after the body has been filled with carbon dioxide. It is quicker, cheaper, less invasive and less uncomfortable than the traditional optical colonoscopy, said officials at St. Vincent Healthcare, which recently began offering the virtual...
By Ask Dr. Ramo BARRY RAMO For the Journal Days after Tony Snow, President Bush's former press secretary, died from colon cancer, my 55-year-old patient explained to me that she felt very safe from developing the disease because she didn't have a single family member with colon cancer. Snow's mother died of the disease at age 38 and my patient thought the disease only developed if it ran in the family. She was wrong. Every year, 100,000 people develop rectal cancer and nearly 50,000...
By Kevin Lamb, Dayton Daily News, Ohio Jul. 16--SPRINGBORO -- Digestive Specialists will dedicate the recent opening of its fourth doctors' office Thursday, July 17, billing it as the Dayton area's only facility for virtual colonoscopy for colon cancer screening. The Springboro office is at 77 W. Eleanor Drive. Where standard colonoscopy uses a camera inserted in the patient's lower digestive tract, virtual colonoscopy uses CAT scan imaging to produce a three-dimensional picture of...
NASHUA, N.H., June 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- iCAD, Inc. , an industry-leading provider of Computer-Aided Detection (CAD) solutions for the early identification of cancer, today announced it has initiated a clinical study for Colon CAD, its virtual colonoscopy CAD product, in partnership with ACR Image Metrix, a subsidiary of the American College of Radiology (ACR). iCAD and ACR Image Metrix, having completed the development portion of the study, are collaborating on study execution...
NEW YORK, June 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Medicsight PLC (AIM: MDST), a subsidiary of MGT Capital Investments, Inc. (the "Company"), and an industry leader in the development of Computer-Aided Detection (CAD) and image analysis software, today announced that data presented at the recent European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology (ESGAR) in Istanbul showed that the use of the Medicsight Computer-Aided Detection (CAD) helped radiographers to detect 100% of cancers when...
Moraitis D, Singh P, Jayadevan R, Cayten CG. Source Department of Surgery, Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center, New York Medical College, New York, USA. Abstract The widespread use of computed tomography (CT) scanning technology frequently leads to the incidental discovery of thickened bowel wall. The clinical significance of such a CT scan finding is largely under-investigated. The purpose of our study was to determine the incidence of significant clinical pathology and,...
