Follow-up tests improve colorectal cancer recurrence detection
Wednesday, January 15, 2014 - 12:00
in Health & Medicine
Among patients who had undergone curative surgery for primary colorectal cancer, the screening methods of computed tomography and carcinoembryonic antigen each provided an improved rate of surgical treatment of cancer recurrence compared with minimal follow-up, although there was no advantage in combining these tests, according to a study.