Have a Nice Colonoscopy: New Test Eliminates Probing, Laxative

[queenlillian1962]

Colonoscopies could be made a bit more comfortable for people if they involved lying in a CT scanner, rather than being probed with an endoscope, and at the same time didn't require drinking upward of a gallon of laxative fluid beforehand — current requirements that most consider unpleasant.

A new type of "virtual colonoscopy" that uses CT scans to construct images of the colon, as well as to virtually "clean" the organ, was just as effective as a standard colonoscopy in finding colon polyps 1 centimeter or larger in size, a new study finds. Most polyps, or growths on the lining of the colon, are benign, but some can turn cancerous.


http://www.myhealthnewsdaily.com/258...lonoscopy.html
"The subtraction of the laxative can only make what's already an attractive test even more attractive," said Dr. Durado Brooks, director of prostate and colorectal cancer at the American Cancer Society, who was not involved with the study.



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[queenlillian1962]

I had my first one last week and had two precancerous polyps removed. I have to go back in five years and hope scanning is standard proceedure by then because the liquid diet and laxative cocktail is awful. for anyone else who has gone through this miserable process there is hope on the horizon.