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Multi-format color scheme. Unpleasant but necessary
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Making it usable #1

Closed tapajos closed 11 years ago

macedo commented 11 years ago

:+1:

mdepolli commented 11 years ago

:shipit:

caffo commented 11 years ago

Colonscopy far outperform three other standard screening methods for colon cancer, German researchers report.

Their study of more than 300 low-risk, healthy men and women compared virtual and real colonoscopy to flexible sigmoidoscopy, fecal occult blood test (FOBT), and immunological detection of hemoglobin in stool (FIT).

The researchers say the study is the first to look at how the five screening techniques perform, alone and in combination, in the same patient.

"What we found," says University of Munich's Frank Kolligs, MD, "is that for relevant lesions, virtual colonoscopy probably performs equally well to colonoscopy."

The other three methods are far less accurate, carrying a high rate of false-negative and/or false-positive readings -- even when combined, he says.

"The bottom line," Kolligs tells WebMD, "is that if you do colorectal cancer screening, you should have a test that allows the doctor to visualize the colon."