Virtual colonoscopy allows detection of unsuspected cancers beyond colon

Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - 23:49 in Health & Medicine

A new, large-scale study of more than 10,000 adults found that more than one in every 200 asymptomatic people screened with CT colonography, or virtual colonoscopy, had clinically unsuspected malignant cancer and more than half of the cancers were located outside the colon.

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