Guidelines recommend frequent surveillance colonoscopies (with the first at 3 years after polyp removal) for patients with high-risk adenomas. Surveillance colonoscopy beginning 5 years after removal ...

In this ongoing noninferiority trial conducted in eight European countries, we randomly assigned patients with high-risk adenomas (defined as ≥1 adenoma with a diameter of ≥10 mm, high-grade dysplasia ...

Corrections and clarifications: This story was updated to accurately attribute quotes to Dr. Svetang Desai. Should you be worried about colonoscopy complications? If you've been keeping up with some ...

Amy Schumer is opening up about how she's feeling after a routine medical procedure apparently went wrong. "I actually had kind of a botched colonoscopy, so I'm not feeling very sexual," she ...

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Retroflexion is a maneuver used during endoscopy or colonoscopy. I explain to my patients that this maneuver involves the scope being configured into a J- or candy-cane-like shape to allow the ...

The recent death of the 48-year-old actor James Van Der Beek is again highlighting how colorectal cancer is increasingly killing younger people. Overall, cancer death rates in people younger than 50 ...

1 Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences (WEISS), University College London (UCL), London, UK 2 Division of Surgery and Interventional Sciences, UCL, London, UK Introduction ...

Colonoscopy prep, which involves drinking a liquid that helps evacuate your bowels, gives your doctor the best possible view of your colon during colorectal cancer screenings. But the process has long ...

It turns out that despite everything you’ve heard, getting a colonoscopy is wonderful. By Sam Anderson For many of us, a colonoscopy is a distant inevitable horror, like the heat death of the universe ...

Get ready for a butt load of ugly truth. A doctor is pulling back the curtain on what really happens when you’re under sedation during a colonoscopy — and it may change how you schedule the rest of ...

A colonoscopy technique involving repeat intubation of the sigmoid colon significantly improves detection of adenomas compared with conventional colonoscopy evaluations, new research showed. “After ...