{"id":186700,"date":"2024-04-03T14:22:52","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T19:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/virtual-colonoscopy-lets-you-skip-the-scope-heres-what-to-know-about-the-colorectal-cancer-screening-mark-cuban-says-saves-time-and-money"},"modified":"2024-04-03T14:22:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T19:22:52","slug":"virtual-colonoscopy-lets-you-skip-the-scope-heres-what-to-know-about-the-colorectal-cancer-screening-mark-cuban-says-saves-time-and-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/virtual-colonoscopy-lets-you-skip-the-scope-heres-what-to-know-about-the-colorectal-cancer-screening-mark-cuban-says-saves-time-and-money","title":{"rendered":"Virtual colonoscopy lets you skip the scope. Here\u2019s what to know about the colorectal cancer screening Mark Cuban says saves time and money"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Whereas traditional colonoscopy involves snaking a camera called a colonoscope through your colon and rectum, a CT colonography, or virtual colonoscopy, consists of X-rays and a computer creating 3D images of these organs.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re between the ages of 45 and 85, you should have a colorectal cancer screening routine<\/a> in place, per the American Cancer Society (ACS)<\/a>. But a colonoscopy <\/a>\u2014in which your doctor uses a special camera to look inside your colon and rectum in search of abnormal growths called polyps <\/a>\u2014isn\u2019t the only option to take charge of your gastrointestinal health.<\/p>\n

You can choose from noninvasive screening methods<\/a>: computed tomography (CT) colonography and\/or a stool-based test. Billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank<\/i> investor Mark Cuban<\/a> tells Fortune<\/i> he enjoys the relatively low cost and simplicity of the former, also called virtual colonoscopy<\/a>. In short, it\u2019s an X-ray exam that doesn\u2019t require sedation or anesthesia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whereas traditional colonoscopy involves snaking a camera called a colonoscope through your colon and rectum, a CT colonography, or virtual colonoscopy, consists of X-rays and a computer creating 3D images of these organs. If you\u2019re between the ages of 45 and 85, you should have a colorectal cancer screening routine in place, per the American [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,39,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-economics","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}