The advertisements for "whole body scans" pelt us daily from magazine spreads and billboards: Spot heart disease before the heart attack, find the tumor before it kills you, and the like. The message ...

Chances are, you or someone you know has been affected by colon cancer. According to the National Cancer Institute, Connecticut had nearly 61 cases of colon cancer per 100,000 residents in the early ...

Colon CT scans might be able to prevent more colon cancers than stool DNA testing Two CT screening approaches outperformed stool DNA testing in computer models CT screening also was more ...

Multi-site blinded validation of a deep learning approach for clinical-grade MSI/dMMR detection in colorectal cancer from H&E-stained pathology images. Comparing utility of pMMR versus dMMR tumors for ...

Severe enterocolitis with capecitabine (CAPE) is not a predictor of gastrointestinal (GI) toxicity with infusional 5-fluorouracil (5-FU)–based regimens: An institutional analysis. Average cumulative ...

Peter Apicella, MD, chief of radiology at Salem Community Hospital says virtual CT colonoscopy involves a less intense preparation, does not require sedation, is less invasive and provides minimal ...

The prevalent use of CT scans may account for 1 in 20 cancers annually, according to new research. The study, published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine, suggests CT-related radiation is linked to ...

A stock photo of a person undergoing a CT scan A recently published study has found that the radiation from CT scans could potentially lead to thousands of cancer diagnoses "These findings suggest ...

The Connecticut Department of Correction (DOC) has a long history of health care litigation filed by incarcerated people or their families, but a new colon cancer screening program from the agency is ...

Computed tomography (CT) scans could soon account for 5 percent of all new cancer cases diagnosed annually if current practices persist, a new study has concluded. That sounds scary; but how serious ...

Radiation is everywhere—in the air we breathe, the water we drink, the walls of our homes and offices, emanating from microwaves, at the dentist, and at the doctor if we break a bone. And we’re told, ...