While colorectal cancer polyps often have no symptoms—especially in the early stages—there are some warning signs to be on ...

OF all the problems currently facing the surgeon and pathologist, none is more controversial than the pathogenesis and proper treatment of adenomatous polyps of the colon. Until a few years ago ...

Colon and rectal cancers generally start as abnormal growths, called colorectal polyps, in the lining of ... fourth most common cancer among men and women in the United States, after lung, breast ...

A female polyp of the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis, shown here laying eggs, can directly inherit the temperature tolerance of the parent generation through the passing on of certain bacteria.

Many people are simply unaware of the existence of the FIT test or underestimate its importance in colorectal cancer ...

Colon capsule endoscopy offers a non-invasive alternative to traditional colonoscopy, improving early cancer detection and ...

The ability to detect serrated polyps by fecal blood testing, computed tomographic (CT) colonography and colonoscopy is limited. Serrated polyps are less likely than adenomas to bleed, so fecal ...

Colorectal or colon cancer is the third-most common cancer, and each year around 50,000 men and women die from the disease ... any precancerous growths called polyps. These can turn into colon ...

Salama says screening for most men and women should begin ... family member who has had colon cancer, or people who haven’t before been diagnosed with intestinal polyps—should follow that ...

Colon and rectal cancers are the third most popular cancers among men and women (Photo ... Changes in bowel habits Colon polyps are small clumps of cells found on the lining of the colon that ...