Dr. Curran: The options fall into three categories. There's endoscopic testing like colonoscopy, stool based tests like ...

Colon cancer treatment involves surgery. Surgery includes removing the portion of the digestive system affected and/or any tumors or polyps. In cases where the cancer spreads to lymph nodes or other ...

Colon cancer treatment involves surgery. Surgery includes removing the portion of the digestive system affected and/or any tumors or polyps. In cases where the cancer spreads to lymph nodes or other ...

For Stephan Fihn, the reward was seeing how Veterans Affairs research changed his patients’ lives. “A big one was the management of prostate enlargement. You know, when I went into practice, the ...

The research team also found that the protein vimentin, often associated with more advanced forms of colon cancer, was greatly reduced inside polyp tissues ... Institute. A CT hospital is opening ...

There are, however, some major issues with the media reports. Although CT scans can and sometimes do cause cancer in patients, the reality is that you probably aren’t in much danger when you go ...

TAMPA (BLOOM) – Frankie Maldonado, the Director of Operations for Life Guard Imaging joins Gayle Guyardo, the host of Bloom, to share more about their innovative CT scan and how it compares ...

“This process is like a cosmic CT scan,” says Madhavacheril, “where we can look through different slices of cosmic history and track how matter clumped together at different epochs. It gives us a ...

over 90% of CT scans are performed on adults, so it’s this group that faces the largest overall impact. The most common cancers linked to CT exposure are lung, colon, bladder and leukaemia.

After that, each person had a colonoscopy, a test where doctors use a small camera to check for polyps and other signs of colon problems. One interesting result was that people who had the highest ...

Lung cancer was projected to be the most common radiation-induced cancer, followed by colon cancer. “Our estimates put CT on par with other significant risk factors, such as alcohol consumption and ...