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

During a colonoscopy, your doctor uses ... Positive. The test found blood. That could come from cancer or polyps, or from something else. So, you need a colonoscopy to know for sure.

Optical diagnosis enables real-time histologic predictions of polyps 5 mm or smaller during colonoscopy ... on 7782 polyps ≤ 5 mm from 11 studies found specificity values of 0.62 (95% CI ...

During a colonoscopy, clinicians can not only detect colorectal cancers, but also remove precancerous polyps which can develop into cancers ... when the group looked at the costs associated with each ...

Actor James Van Der Beek recently announced he has the disease. The rate o colon cancer in people younger than 55 has doubled ...

The FDA based its approval on a clinical trial involving nearly 8,000 people, which found that ... precancerous polyps they come across during the examination. “This makes colonoscopy a unique ...

A new meta-analysis confirms that use of computer-aided detection (CADe) systems during colonoscopy finds more polyps and adenomas ... their clinical importance, found a small increase in the ...

During a colonoscopy, clinicians can not only detect colorectal cancers, but also remove precancerous polyps which can develop ... with each test, they found that colonoscopies and stool-based ...