Share on Pinterest New technology has created alternatives for colorectal cancer screening. gahsoon/Getty Images Researchers say some people who have a negative result from a colonoscopy may be able ...

About 17 years ago, after having a physical exam at Kaiser Permamente Hospital in Fontana, Calif., they scheduled an appointment for me to have a colonoscopy exam in three months. My first thought was ...

1. Research company NRG Oncology launched a study to examine patients with a first diagnosis of adenomas. The purpose of the study is to determine when patients diagnosed with one or two adenomas ...

If you are at risk for colon cancer due to your age or family history, why not get screened? The answer is often fear of the colonoscopy exam itself which requires sedation or it could be the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Follow-up colonoscopy is both overused and underused, two new studies indicate. Too often, patients at high-risk for colorectal cancer don't receive timely "surveillance" ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Endoscopy units and endoscopists are recommended to reach a bowel preparation adequacy rate of 90%. Adjunctive ...

ScienceDaily (Oct. 31, 2011) - Physicians who listen to Mozart while performing colonoscopy may increase their detection rates of precancerous polyps, according to the results of a new study unveiled ...

I still vividly remember my feelings when my doctor asked me to undertake a colonoscopy examination. As I learned more about the examination and preparation procedures, I started feeling embarrassed ...

In a viewpoint published Nov. 10 in Medscape, David Johnson, MD, chief of gastroenterology at Eastern Virginia Medical School and Old Dominion University in Norfolk, outlined four studies presented at ...