What Are The Advantages of CTC
- Less invasive—better patient acceptance. No six foot scope advanced to the cecum, translate to better patient acceptance.
- Safer: The perforation rate 10-20x lower than colonoscopy for a diagnostic, lower for therapeutic
- Very short procedural time. Scan in two positions: supine (lying on the back) and prone (lying on the front), which is less than 10 seconds.
- No need for sedation which is necessary for both colonoscopy and sigmoidoscopy (looking inside the sigmoid colon and rectum).
- Less costly than colonoscopy
- Extracolonic evaluation- Affords ability to evaluate structure outside of the colon.
- Not enough gastroenterologists to perform all the colonoscopy in our aging population.
