Diagnosis of rectal cancer by Tissue Resonance Interaction Method.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Since population screening has the potential to reduce mortality from rectal cancer (RC), novel methods with improved cost-effectiveness warrant consideration. In a previous pilot study, we found that the rapid, inexpensive and non-invasive electromagnetic detection of RC is a highly specific and sensitive technique. The aim of the present prospective study was to evaluate the prediction accuracy of electromagnetic detection of RC.

Methods

304 eligible subjects were consecutively enrolled in our Institute and subjected to electromagnetic detection followed by colonoscopy and histopathologic analysis of biopsies. A putative RC carrier status was attributed to subjects showing an electromagnetic signal < 50 units (U).

Results

RC patients showed a significantl

SUBMITTER: Vannelli A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2874761 | biostudies-literature | 2010 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature