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Colonoscopy, in which a small tube with a light and camera is inserted into your rectum to look at your colon. If polyps are found, your health care provider may remove them immediately or take tissue samples to send to the lab for analysis. Virtual colonoscopy, a test that uses a CT scan to view your colon. More @Wikipedia
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- Colon polyps - Diagnosis and treatment - Mayo ClinicColonoscopy, in which a small tube with a light and camera is inserted into your rectum to look at your colon. If polyps are found, your health care provider may remove them immediately or take tissue samples to send to the lab for analysis. Virtual colonoscopy, a test that uses a CT scan to view your colon.
- Colon cancer - Diagnosis and treatment - Mayo ClinicTests and procedures used for colon cancer diagnosis include: Using a scope to examine the inside of the colon. Colonoscopy uses a long, flexible and slender tube attached to a video camera and monitor to view the whole colon and rectum. A doctor may pass surgical tools through the tube to take tissue samples and remove polyps.
- Colon cancer screening: Weighing the options - Mayo ClinicVirtual colonoscopy (CT colonography) During a virtual colonoscopy, a CT scan produces cross-sectional images of the abdominal organs, allowing the doctor to detect changes or abnormalities in the colon and rectum. To help create clear images, a small tube (catheter) is placed inside your rectum to fill your colon with air or carbon dioxide.
- Crohn's disease - Diagnosis and treatment - Mayo ClinicColonoscopy. A colonoscopy uses a tiny camera on the end of a flexible tube to visually examine the entire colon and the very end of the ileum. During the procedure, small samples of tissue, called a biopsy, may be taken for laboratory analysis. This may help to make a diagnosis.
- Colon cancer screening: At what age can you stop? - Mayo ClinicBut most medical organizations in the United States agree that the benefits of screening decline after age 75 for most people and there's little evidence to support continuing screening after age 85. Discuss colon cancer screening with your health care provider. Together you can consider the benefits and risks of continued screening.
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