Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After the fasting, the uncomfortable cleanse and a drowsy ride home, it’s a relief to have your colonoscopy screening behind you.

Doctors at Advent Health in Orlando are using the newly Food and Drug Administration-approved Senhance system for minimally invasive abdominal surgery. Unlike other robotic systems, Senhance provides ...

Sept. 24 -- TUESDAY, Sept. 23 (HealthDay News) -- Black people undergoing colon cancer screening are more likely to have large precancerous polyps than are whites. Black men had a 16 percent increased ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Blacks are more likely than whites to have large colon polyps, and their tumors tend to be located higher in the colon where they are harder to detect, U.S. researchers said on ...

PITTSBURGH, Dec. 1 – According to a University of Pittsburgh-led study published in the December issue of Gastroenterology, medium-sized polyps found in the colon with flexible sigmoidoscopy and ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Taking aspirin daily may cut one's chances of developing the polyps that can lead to colorectal cancer, giving people at high risk for the disease a useful preventive tool, ...

Doctors say there are less invasive screening options for colon cancer, but each comes with tradeoffs.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Crockett and colleagues randomly assigned patients with large ( 20 mm) non-pedunculated polyps who underwent ...

A new study suggests that large amounts of folic acid don't prevent the growth of pre-cancerous polyps in the colon, contrary to earlier belief. A new study suggests that large amounts of folic acid ...

Former 7th Heaven child star Beverley Mitchell is looking back on her cancer scare from her early 30s. “Yesterday, I got a colonoscopy, and I am sharing this because I think that there’s a lot of ...

The UW Medicine Cancer Vaccine Institute is also developing vaccines that target breast, ovarian and lung cancers.

Actor and singer Will Smith went for his first colonoscopy since turning 50, and it’s a good thing he did. Doctors found and removed a precancerous polyp during the procedure. Smith shared the entire ...