A long-term study has examined how a colonoscopy affects the risk of colon cancer and the mortality risk in the event of a ...

This important procedure doesn’t have to feel awkward or embarrassing. Here’s what to know to make the test and the ...

The risks and benefits of common screenings, procedures and drugs add up differently at advanced ages, and research continues ...

A first-in-human trial of a robotic colonoscopy shows the system can perform all functions of a colonoscope with promising ...

The number of annual colonoscopies performed in the U.S. is projected to decline over the next decade as use of noninvasive ...

Perianal 2% lidocaine gel significantly reduced anal pain and shortened cecal intubation time during unsedated colonoscopy in ...

For more than two decades, colonoscopy has been promoted as the gold standard for colorectal cancer screening. Policy makers ...

"This evolving therapeutic landscape fundamentally changes the arithmetic of screening benefit," she wrote. "Colonoscopy clearly prevents some cancers, but when prognosis for clinically detected ...

A randomized controlled trial compared the efficacy, tolerability, and safety of different volumes of polyethylene glycol (PEG) regimens for bowel preparation for inpatient colonoscopy.

People of average risk for colon cancer should get a screening or colonoscopy earlier than previously advised.

Gen Z is facing a rise in colorectal cancer, yet many young people with symptoms delay screening out of fear or embarrassment. UC Santa Cruz literature and psychology student Kathleen Whilden wants to ...