Gastrointestinal Radiology: Page 26

SIGGAR trial results a win-win for virtual colonoscopy

By Eric Barnes

BOSTON - A decade-long colorectal cancer screening initiative involving more than a dozen radiologists and thousands of patients across the U.K. delivered positive early results at this week's International Symposium on Virtual Colonoscopy.

October 26, 2010

Healthy life could prevent 23% of colon cancers

By Reuters Health

LONDON (Reuters) - Getting people to eat a healthy diet, not smoke, cut down on alcohol, and exercise more could prevent almost a quarter of the some 1.2 million cases of colon cancer diagnosed each year, scientists said on Wednesday.

October 26, 2010

Low-dose aspirin lowers colon cancer risk: study

By Reuters Health

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Low doses of aspirin taken to reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes can also lower the risk of colon cancer, British researchers reported today in the Lancet.

October 21, 2010

MDS Nordion touts TheraSphere study

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

MDS Nordion announced that the first large European study using yttrium-90 glass microspheres has been published on the use of TheraSphere, a radioembolization therapy for the localized treatment of advanced hepatocellular carcinoma or primary liver cancer.

October 7, 2010

Advanced VC tool serves up polyp locations for colonoscopy

By Eric Barnes

Large polyps found at virtual colonoscopy are referred to optical colonoscopy for removal, and that's generally the end of the story. But VC-detected polyps can't always be found quickly and easily at colonoscopy, so an automated method of finding them might be just what the gastroenterologist ordered.

September 16, 2010

Aycan teams with SOVAmed

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Radiology informatics firm Aycan Medical Systems and SOVAmed are collaborating on medical postprocessing technology and the companies' first joint project, SOVA.evar.

September 13, 2010

Study finds VC cost-effective if tiny polyps are ignored

By Eric Barnes

Virtual colonoscopy is cost-effective for colorectal cancer screening, assuming that only patients with polyps 6 mm or larger are referred for polypectomy, a new French study has concluded. Removing the smallest lesions is not only prohibitively expensive, the yield in terms of additional cancer is minimal.

September 8, 2010

FOBT accuracy differs between men and women

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Sep 7 - Both immunological and guaiac-based fecal occult blood tests (FOBTs) have a higher sensitivity and lower specificity for detection of advanced colorectal neoplasm among men than among women, German investigators report.

September 6, 2010

CAD labels abdominal vessels with improved accuracy

By Eric Barnes

A new computer-aided detection (CAD) algorithm automatically labels abdominal arteries extracted from CT images. The work-in-progress system is more accurate and less dependent on error-prone features than previous CAD schemes, say researchers from Nagoya, Japan.

September 1, 2010

Contrast MRI visualizes bowel damage caused by celiac disease

By Wayne Forrest

Contrast-enhanced MRI dynamic evaluation of the bowel wall can effectively visualize inflammation caused by celiac disease, aiding the assessment of patients with this condition, according to a study in the September issue of Radiology.

August 31, 2010

Men with high CRP have higher risk of colon cancer

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Aug 22 - Men with high C-reactive protein (CRP) levels may have a higher risk of colon cancer, a new report from the EPIC study suggests.

August 22, 2010

New biomarkers identify severe abdominal injury after multiple trauma

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Aug 20 - Two newly recognized biomarkers, intestinal fatty acid-binding protein (I-FABP) and liver fatty acid-binding protein (L-FABP), can signal severe abdominal injury in trauma patients, according to a July report in Academic Emergency Medicine.

August 19, 2010

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