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 ...

A colonoscopy is a telescopic and visual examination of the colon and rectum. It helps doctors detect abnormalities in the bowel, including signs of colorectal cancer. More than 15 million colonoscopy ...

A colonoscopy is a procedure that diagnoses and helps monitor inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). This can play an essential role in preventing and treating colorectal cancer. Doctors diagnose IBD using ...

A colonoscopy remains one of medicine’s most effective tools for detecting colorectal cancer in its earliest, most treatable stages. While the procedure itself typically causes minimal discomfort ...

Colonoscopy is at the heart of gastroenterology. It is a diagnostic and therapeutic tool and it has become the central figure in the crusade against colorectal cancer. Seven gastroenterologists ...

A new artificial intelligence (AI) system can help expert endoscopists improve their colonoscopies, a new study indicates. Endoscopists using the computer program SKOUT (Iterative Scopes, Inc) ...

Despite advances in medical care and widespread awareness about cancer screening, colonoscopy remains one of the most misunderstood and avoided procedures. For many, just hearing the word brings ...

There will probably never be a TV reality show on how to survive colonoscopy prep, but before enduring my first one, I was pretty convinced there needed to be. I kept hearing from family and friends ...

A new paper in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute finds that eliminating the race disparity in colon cancer testing in the United States would dramatically reduce colon cancer, and colon ...