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. This may ...

A colonoscopy is an exam that lets your physician see your entire colon. Before the test, your health care team will give you instructions for how to clear your colon of any stool. This process is ...

NEWARK, Del. — The Colon Health Center of Delaware has been selling an alternative to one of medicine’s most unloved procedures: the colonoscopy. Rather than insert several feet of tubing into the ...

According to Mark Baumel, MD, MS, president and CEO of Colon Health Centers of America, colorectal cancer is one of the most preventable types of cancer if detected early yet it remains the ...

Virtual colonoscopy, also called computed tomography colonography (CTC) or CT colonography, is a noninvasive way to check for polyps and colon cancer tumors. If you need a colonoscopy, you may wonder ...

SIOUX CITY -- Gayle Gregg's friends kept hounding her. Good thing. "I turned 50 and my doctor told me to get a colonoscopy," she said. "I didn't want to, but my girlfriends were all insistent. They ...

A "virtual" colonoscopy, a high-tech computerized X-ray scan, can catch precancerous growths as reliably as conventional exams in which a long tube with a camera is snaked through the colon while the ...

People of average risk for colon cancer should get a screening or colonoscopy earlier than previously advised.

A colonoscopy is a telescopic and visual examination of the colon and rectum. It helps doctors detect abnormalities in the bowel, including signs of colorectal cancer. More than 15 million colonoscopy ...