CT colonography
(Virtual colonoscopy)
Dr Peng Hui LEE
Consultant Radiologist
MEHT
www.midessexray.com

Bowel Cancer
● 3rd most common cancer in UK
● 2nd most common in women after breast
● 3rd most common in men after lung and prostate
● 2nd most common cause of cancer death in UK
● 36 766 new diagnoses in 2005
● 1 in 20 people in UK during lifetime

Detection
● Flex sig
● Colonoscopy
● Ba Enema
● CT colonography
● MR colonography (experimental)
● Stool tests (FOB, FIT, eDNA)