The role of CT colonography in colorectal cancer screening

FB Nicholson, JL Barro, CI Bartram… - Official journal of the …, 2005 - journals.lww.com
Computed tomographic colonography (CTC) is a relatively noninvasive technique for large
bowel imaging that has the ability to detect colorectal neoplasia. Already well established as …

Colorectal cancer screening and surveillance with CT colonography: current controversies and obstacles

RE Van Gelder, J Florie, J Stoker - Abdominal imaging, 2004 - Springer
Computed tomographic (CT) colonography has been advocated as an alternative colorectal
screening method because studies in populations with a high prevalence of polyps have …

Computed tomographic colonography: ready for prime time?

DC Rockey - Gastroenterology Clinics, 2010 - gastro.theclinics.com
Computed tomographic (CT) colonography was initially proposed as a method to evaluate
the colon for polyps 1, 2 and has grown and expanded remarkably over the previous …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in CT colonography for colorectal cancer screening and diagnosis

J Yee, S Weinstein, T Morgan, P Alore… - Journal of Cancer, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
CT colonography (CTC) is a validated colorectal cancer test that provides an additional
minimally-invasive screening option which is likely to be preferred by some patients …

Screening CT colonography

J Yee - Seminars in Ultrasound, CT and MRI, 2003 - Elsevier
CT colonography (Virtual Colonoscopy) was first introduced in 1994 as a novel imaging
technique for the detection of colorectal polyps and cancer. It is currently proposed as a new …

CT colonography: current status and future promise

S Summerton, E Little, MS Cappell - Gastroenterology Clinics of North …, 2008 - Elsevier
CT colonography (CTC) is an innovative technology that entails CT examination of the entire
colon and computerized processing of the raw data after colon cleansing and colonic …

Colon cancer screening, polyp size, and CT colonography: making sense of it all?

DC Rockey - Gastroenterology, 2006 - gastrojournal.org
Agreat deal is known about colorectal cancer screening, but at the same time, many
questions remain. We know that colorectal cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer …

[HTML][HTML] CT colonography in cancer detection: methods and results

W Schima, T Mang - Cancer Imaging, 2004 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related death in the Western world.
Approximately 80–90% of colon cancers develop in adenomas after mutations. The risk of …

CT colonography for colon cancer screening

S Banerjee, J Van Dam - Gastrointestinal endoscopy, 2006 - giejournal.org
Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States, with
over 130,000 new cases diagnosed each year. Most colon cancers arise from preexisting …

Meta-analysis: computed tomographic colonography

BP Mulhall, GR Veerappan… - Annals of Internal Medicine, 2005 - acpjournals.org
Background: Computed tomographic (CT) colonography, also called virtual colonoscopy, is
an evolving technology under evaluation as a new method of screening for colorectal …