Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Interval FIT was positive in 14% to 17% of patients after colonoscopy, regardless of polypectomy history. High ...

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, and Colorado doctors are warning the deadly disease is on the rise among young people. Diagnoses in people under 50 have risen by more than 50% since 1994.

Adrienna Jirik, MD, is a board-certified gastroenterologist at Cleveland Clinic, where she has been providing care since 2016. She completed advanced fellowships in hepatology/transplant and ...

October 30, 2006 (Las Vegas) — People who have no neoplasms on a baseline colonoscopy rarely have any such lesions, benign or malignant, at the 5-year follow-up, according to a team of investigators ...

Researchers in Gastroenterology evaluated strategies for preventing avoidable colorectal cancers after colonoscopy. In related news, a third of adenomas could be missed with white-light colonoscopy, ...

SAN DIEGO — For patients with a positive fecal immunochemical test, the risk for colorectal cancer increases if diagnostic colonoscopy is delayed beyond 6 months, according to new research. "In breast ...

A new study by Canadian researchers published in The American Journal of Gastroenterology reveals colonoscopies may miss nearly 8 percent (or one in every 13) of colon cancers, according to The AJC.

Timely follow-up colonoscopies can reduce the mortality rate from colorectal cancer, and patient navigators can play an important role in facilitating screening. A University of Arizona Health ...

If youre strict about your fitness routine but youre about to have a colonoscopy, you might find it reassuring to know that youll likely be advised to avoid working out for a mere 24 hours. Jefferson ...