The recommended age to start screening for colorectal cancer was lowered in 2021 from 50 to 45 for people of average risk.

Tuesday's study in the New England Journal of Medicine finds virtual colonoscopy is as good - if not slightly better - at spotting potential cancer than traditional colonoscopy.

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.

Traditional colonoscopy is the most comprehensive type of colorectal cancer screening, but noninvasive options have their advantages.

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 ...

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 ...

A ground-breaking advance in colonoscopy technology signals the future of colorectal care, according to research presented today at Digestive Disease Week®. Additional research focuses on ...

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 virtual method detected 55 percent of patients with at least one suspicious polyp at least 10 millimeters in diameter, compared with a 100 percent success rate for traditional colonoscopy. For ...

Some critics contend it could inflate the nation’s skyrocketing healthcare tab because a traditional colonoscopy is required if anything is found in the imaging.

A traditional colonoscopy at the Wisconsin hospital is $3,300 and more if polyps are removed; virtual colonoscopy costs $1,186. Insurers pay about 40 percent of that charge, Pickhardt said.