Could Listening to Mozart Help Doctors Spot Colon Polyps?
Doctors who listen to Mozart while performing colonoscopies may spot more precancerous growths, researchers suggested in a presentation at ACG’s annual meeting this week. Better detection of these so-called adenomatous polyps could save lives, the study authors noted, as survival rates for colorectal cancer are better than 90 percent if the disease is detected early.
In their small study, two doctors performed endoscopies either while listening to Mozart or with no music at all. Both doctors improved their detection rates of potentially dangerous adenomatous polyps when they listened to music compared with their pre-study (baseline) rates. But while both doctors had better results compared to their baseline rates, one doctor did slightly better in procedures without music than with music during the study.
"While this is a small study, the results highlight how thinking outside the box — in this case using Mozart — to improve adenoma detection rates can potentially prove valuable to physicians and patients," said the lead researcher of the study.
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