A colonoscopy is considered the gold standard when it comes to screening for colon polyps and colorectal cancer. Yet a colonoscopy — and the steps required to get one — can cause a spike of anxiety.

If you’ve been putting off a colonoscopy, you’re not alone. The fasting is uncomfortable, the prep is disagreeable, and the procedure itself requires you to be put to sleep. But colonoscopies are more ...

New guidelines introduce quality indicators like bowel preparation adequacy and sessile serrated lesion detection rates for colonoscopy. The adenoma detection rate (ADR) threshold increased from 30% ...

Here are 10 recent changes to colonoscopy laws, reimbursements and recommendations from 2024 that physicians should watch going into 2025: In January, 45 members of Congress, led by Rep. Debbie ...

Why Do People Get a Colonoscopy for Ulcerative Colitis? Ulcerative colitis is a type of inflammatory bowel disease that causes inflammation and sores to form in the large intestine and rectum. It ...

SEATTLE — Colonoscopies save lives by detecting colorectal cancers early. Colorectal cancer is actually increasing in younger populations, so a first colonoscopy screening is now recommended at age 45 ...

FIT checks for blood in the stool, which can indicate the presence of colorectal cancer or polyps. Patients collect stool ...

SOUTHERN ILLINOIS (KFVS) - March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, focusing on preventing a disease that impacts more than 141,000 people each year. The CDC reports it as the fourth most common ...

A study finds that use of virtual colonoscopy, a non-invasive way of scanning the colon for potentially cancerous growths, is on the rise. That’s a bit of a surprise, given that not all medical ...

A study co-authored by SMU Assistant Professor Yini Gao aims to redesign the diagnostic screening process for colorectal cancer, to prompt adherence and better utilise constrained resources. SMU ...