Virtual Colonoscopy Performance Enhanced by Computer-Aided Detection
Nov. 28, 2005 – Those who support virtual colonoscopy, primarily in hope of getting more senior citizens screened for colon cancer, got a boost today from research presented at the Radiological Society of America (RSNA). Computed tomography (CT) colonography (virtual colonoscopy) with computer-aided detection (CAD) is highly effective for finding colon polyps, according to a large-scale,
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Pilot program offers free colon cancer tests to poor
WASHINGTON -- It's the cancer with the yuck factor, that part of the anatomy lots of people would rather ignore.
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Cancer Claims Actress Somers
Beloved U.S. actress BRETT SOMERS has lost her battle with stomach and colon cancer at her home in Westport, Connecticut. She was 83. Somers made reg
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BC alumnus returns with success story
He paid his way through Boston College in the 1960s, selling peanuts and hot dogs at Fenway Park and driving a Checker taxi. Even the death of his mother to colon cancer during his junior year of college didn't throw John M. "Jack" Connors Jr. off course.
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