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CT scans detect other problems, too

Virtual colonoscopy, an increasingly popular technique that uses CT scans instead of invasive endoscopy to identify colon polyps, can identify many medical problems outside the colon, making it a more valuable tool than researchers previously believed, according to a report in the journal Radiology.

In 500 men undergoing virtual colonoscopy, 45 had significant problems outside the colon, including aneurysms and other cancers, wrote researchers from the University of California, San Francisco.

Although the American Cancer Society recommends that all Americans be screened regularly for colon cancer beginning at age 50, less than 30 percent are, partly because of the length and discomfort of conventional colonoscopies.

Virtual colonoscopy — in which doctors scan a patient's colon with 20 seconds of X-rays — is far less invasive.

Of 500 patients the UCSF team screened using virtual colonoscopy, 8.4 percent were found to have lesions that warranted further diagnosis including kidney masses, lung nodules, abdominal aortic aneurysms and iliac artery aneurysms. Twenty-five of the patients underwent additional imaging studies, but only five received surgical treatment.

Typically, principal author Dr. Judy Yee said, these were patients who had no symptoms, so the lesions were caught at a very early stage.

The report did not address the efficacy of virtual colonoscopy at detecting polyps, which Yee thinks has been proved in previous studies. Other experts still approach the technique with caution, however.

Older Americans get poor treatment

Three in four Americans 80 or older have high blood pressure, but most get inadequate treatment, researchers say.

"For these patients, managing high blood pressure may make the difference between living many more healthy years, or spending those years recovering from a debilitating stroke or heart attack," wrote study co-author Dr. Daniel Levy in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Researchers found 74 percent of people 80 and older had high blood pressure, compared with 63 percent of those aged 60 to 79 and 27 percent of those younger than 60. Yet less than two-thirds of the people in the older age groups got treatment.

Circumcision may ward off infection

Circumcision can help protect men from the AIDS virus, researchers said after finishing the first study that tried using the procedure specifically to prevent infection.

But United Nations health officials cautioned that more trials were needed before they would recommend this as a method to protect against AIDS.

Circumcised men were 65 percent less likely to become infected with the deadly and incurable virus, the researchers told the International AIDS Society Conference in Rio de Janeiro.

Several studies have suggested that men who are circumcised have a lower rate of HIV infection. This has been especially noticeable in some parts of Africa, where some groups are routinely circumcised while neighboring groups are not.

Researchers believe circumcision helps to cut infection risk because the foreskin is covered in cells that the virus seems able to easily infect. The virus may also survive better in a warm, wet environment like that found beneath a foreskin.