Showing posts with label colonoscopy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label colonoscopy. Show all posts
Sunday, January 8, 2017

Adenoma Detection Rates In Obese And Smoking Patients

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At left, stained adenoma under the microscope. By Nephron - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=827...
Saturday, December 17, 2016

Colonary Concepts Update

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I previously wrote about the company Colonary Concepts and their development of a more palatable colonoscopy prep, something which from p...
Monday, October 17, 2016

New Colonoscopy Prep In Testing

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Here is a possibl y good news: better-tasting colonoscopy preps are under development and are in the testing stage.  My own personal expe...
Thursday, July 21, 2016

Another Possible Non-Invasive CRC Screen?

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Under study: Background - Colorectal cancer is one of the main cause of cancer in the world. Colonoscopy is the best screen me...
Thursday, June 9, 2016

Gut Microbiota As A Colorectal Cancer Screening Tool

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A proposed method for non-invasive colorectal cancer screening is to test the gut microbiota from stool samples; this is interesting, b...
Thursday, April 14, 2016

Possible Advances For Non-Invasive Colorectal Cancer Screening

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For those who avoid the colonoscopy because of its invasive nature, here is a sample of some research in the field of detection. BACKGRO...
Thursday, March 24, 2016

Electronic Cleansing For Virtual Colonoscopy

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A study says: Electronic cleansing is an image post processing technique in which the tagged colonic content is subtracted from colon ...
Thursday, March 17, 2016

Colonoscopy In Old Age: What Best to Measure?

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A paper looked at the utility of having patients 75+ years old have colonoscopies, which goes against current recommendations. Among p...
Thursday, March 10, 2016

Superiority of Colonoscopy

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While colonoscopy is not perfect and has some risks, and although alternatives like iFOBT are certainly useful and better than nothing, st...
Thursday, March 3, 2016

Mike's Colonoscopy

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Screening for colorectal cancer , a major cause of morbidity and mortality in developed counties is important. It was time for me to...