Colonoscopy candidate Abe Abuchowski says, "You just pick a morning or afternoon and go and have it done and right afterwards you're back at work again. It's much easier than spending the day ...

A traditional colonoscopy uses a device called a colonoscope to look inside the colon and rectum. A virtual colonoscopy is an alternative test that uses a CT scanner instead of a colonoscope.

The accuracy of virtual colonoscopy, which provides a computer-generated 3-D view of the colon, varies considerably, depending on the training and methods of the doctors performing it, researchers ...

Whereas traditional colonoscopy involves snaking a camera called a colonoscope through your colon and rectum, the virtual option consists of X-rays and a computer creating 3D images of these organs.

Around 50,000 people die every year from colorectal cancer, many because they avoided a traditional colonoscopy. But there is still no consensus about the effectiveness of the new procedure.

A ground-breaking advance in colonoscopy technology signals the future ... Researchers compared both the adenoma miss rate using the new colonoscope with the miss rate of a traditional colonoscope.

The traditional colonoscopy has been shown to be a highly effective, lifesaving screening tool that can significantly reduce a person’s risk of dying from colon cancer.However, some abnormal ...

The state’s new colon cancer screening law covers traditional colonoscopy but not virtual colonoscopy. The law, which took effect Jan. 1, requires Illinois health insurers to cover colorectal… ...

Colonoscopy, the gold standard for detecting colon cancer, may not be pure gold after all.\nThe American College of Physicians released a study this afternoon that says this traditional scope of ...

I read the article "Improving the Virtual Colonoscopy" (Personal Journal, Sept. 6) and would like to clarify some facts for your readers. The costs cited in the article for traditional, or ...