CT scans can detect about 90% of the medium and large lesions and cancers detected by colonoscopy, a study in this week's New England Journal of Medicine found. The finding suggests that people ...

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Less Invasive CT-scan Based Colorectal Cancer Screening Method Shows Good Accuracy. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 3, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2009 / 06 / 090616163952.htm ...

CAD CT detected 25 of 30 flat lesions, for a sensitivity of 83.3% with the filter set at 0, 24 of the 30 lesions for a sensitivity of 80.0% with the filter at 0.75, and 22 of the 30 lesions for a ...

CT and PET scans help with colon cancer ESSEN, Germany, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- A German study suggests that whole-body PET and CT scans provide a suitable method for diagnosing the stage of colorectal ...

Compared to stool DNA testing, researchers found that CT colonography is a cost-saving and clinically effective method for colorectal cancer screening, according to a study published in Radiology.

Figure 1: Axial PET/CT image demonstrates hypermetabolic activity corresponding to the recurrent carcinoma in the left sigmoid colon. Upper left image is axial CT scan, upper right image is ...

By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterFRIDAY, June 13, 2025 (HealthDay News) — CT scans might be able to prevent more colon cancers than stool DNA tests, a new study says.

Computed tomographic colonography may offer patients at increased risk of colorectal cancer an alternative to colonoscopy that is less-invasive, is better-tolerated and has good diagnostic ...