Colorectal Cancer Screening and Computerized Tomographic Colonography

Colorectal Cancer Screening and Computerized Tomographic Colonography-1

Brooks D. Cash
Editor

2013

A Comprehensive Overview

Computed tomographic colonography, or CTC as we will call it throughout this volume, has come a long way since its conceptual phases in the early 1990s. This colorectal cancer screening modality gained widespread attention in the United States with the 2003 publication of a large, multicenter screening study performed at Navy and Army medical centers that showed excellent comparative results with colonoscopy in average-risk individuals.

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