Colorectal cancer is becoming a growing concern, especially as its impact shifts to a younger population. In fact, it is now the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in men under 50 and the second ...

Fecal immunochemical tests for post-polypectomy colorectal cancer surveillance may reduce the need for colonoscopy and improve screening adherence. Stool-based post-polypectomy surveillance strategies ...

A recent article showed that an AI-assisted colonoscopy detected more polyps and cancers. In the future, colonoscopies should ...

The evolution of gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy has transformed CRC diagnostics since its early 20th-century origins.

Some clinical recommendations suggest that polyps larger than 0.5 cm across should be removed, while others set the threshold ...

While AI-assisted colonoscopies with computer-aided detection are associated with improved adenoma detection rates, they also led to a statistically and clinically significant increase in exams that ...

“There’s a hope that assistance will improve detection, removal of polyps, and ultimately, colon cancer,” added Pambianco, who co-moderated the session on colorectal cancer prevention. Future ...

"The technology improves our ability to spot polyps, but it also leads to more procedures ... But costs outweigh the benefits when AI-assisted colonoscopy leads only to benign lesion removal. Since ...

During a colonoscopy, clinicians can not only detect colorectal cancers, but also remove precancerous polyps which can develop into cancers. “This makes colonoscopy a unique cancer screening method ...

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

Patients (n=1,572,414) aged 40 to 80 years who underwent surveillance colonoscopy and had 1 or more small polyp removed between 2019 and 2022 were evaluated for repeat colonoscopy within 30 days on ...