Medically reviewed by Qin Rao, MD Endoscopy procedures for the digestive system—upper endoscopy and colonoscopy—are similar ...

Approximately one in four individuals undergoing colonoscopy has an inadequate bowel preparation. Data from two retrospective studies indicate that 42–48% of colon polyps are missed on ...

New blood tests screen for colorectal cancer in a much less invasive way than colonoscopy, but deaths will increase if many ...

However, the blood test isn't as effective as colonoscopy at detecting and preventing colon cancer, a new review finds. About two and a half times more colon cancer deaths can be expected to occur in ...

Everyone knows that colonoscopies save lives, but that doesn't make drinking a lot of liquid laxatives in preparation for the ...

New blood tests are now available to screen for colorectal (colon) cancer, providing a simpler alternative to traditional ...

Let’s start with the cheapest, the yearly FIT, or fecal immunochemical test, which looks for fecal blood that might be caused ...

Stanford researchers found that new blood tests for colorectal cancer screening are not as effective as colonoscopies or ...

However, the test only was able to detect precancerous colon polyps in about 13% of people. Colonoscopy is not an easy procedure. People must take powerful laxatives ahead of time to completely ...