Nervous about getting a colonoscopy? A gastroenterologist answers six common questions about prep, the procedure, and what to expect.

A qualitative study of thirty-two Chinese first-degree relatives of colorectal cancer patients shows that attitudes and ...

We know that a colonoscopy is the most effective tool for the early detection and prevention of colon cancer. But anyone who has ever had a colonoscopy also knows that it's not necessarily something ...

A recent study published in JAMA identified colorectal cancer as the leading cause of cancer-related deaths among Americans ...

A systematic review associated patient navigation with better diagnostic colonoscopy completion after positive stool-based ...

Among 100,000 people who receive a colonoscopy every 10 years, 1,543 would develop colorectal cancer and 672 would die from the disease, they determined. For stool-based tests every one to three years ...

For years, the gold standard in screening for colon cancer has been a colonoscopy. But a colonoscopy is a medical procedure that involves length prep work, along with being put under, making it ...

NEW YORK, Oct. 28 (UPI) --New blood tests screen for colorectal cancer in a much less invasive way than colonoscopy, but deaths will increase if many people choose this alternative, a new study ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kentucky has long carried one of the highest burdens of colorectal cancer in the nation. For too many families, it is a diagnosis ...

Geneoscopy, Inc., a healthcare diagnostics company advancing the next generation of tools for gastrointestinal health, today announced the launch of ColoSense NextStep, a provider-enabled, opt-in ...

Just weeks after her 17th birthday, Danielle was diagnosed with stage three colon cancer - the start of a 25-year battle in ...