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Even when the home tests work, the results can be misleading. Take, for example, the EZ Detect home colon-cancer-screening test. The packaging promises "a simple home test for detecting the early warning signs of colorectal disease." It's anything but. When customers open the $7.99 kit, they must make their way through a lengthy instruction sheet to learn the correct procedure for dropping a sequence of tissues into the toilet bowl to test for blood in the stool. The smallest error--such as leaving the tissue in the commode for an extra 30 seconds--can cause dramatically inaccurate...
...humble, chalky pill is already linked to reduced rates of heart attack fatalities, and some studies suggest it could reduce the risk of colon cancer. Now, a study out of New York University Medical Center has created a speculative connection between aspirin use and a reduced risk of epithelial ovarian cancer, the most common form of ovarian cancer...
...technology known as electron-beam computed tomography, radiologists take detailed internal pictures from the shoulders to the pelvis. The whole thing takes 10 minutes and provides such information as how much unwanted calcium has collected in your coronary arteries, whether there is an abnormal growth in your liver or colon or whether your bones are showing early signs of osteoporosis. Cost: $500 to $725, little of which your insurer is likely to reimburse...
VIRTUAL COLONOSCOPY Despite Katie Couric's crusade to educate the public about the importance of screening for colon cancer, there are still too many people who resist being tested because of discomfort or cost; an estimated 70% of the population is never screened. A new noninvasive screening technique may offer those most at risk a lifesaving alternative. Dubbed virtual colonoscopy, it uses digital data generated by multiple computer scans to create a high-resolution 3-D image of the intestine, which can then be displayed on a computer screen and visually probed for tell-tale polyps...
...immune system. These lock onto a protein called HER-2/neu found in the tumors of a third of all breast cancers. At UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center, researchers are working on a vaccine to treat brain cancer. Still other scientists are experimenting with vaccines for kidney, colon, pancreatic and ovarian cancer...