Nearly half of the patients in a safety net health system who had an abnormal stool-based screening test for colorectal cancer failed to receive the recommended colonoscopy within a year, despite the ...

A study published in Cancer examined if patient navigation impacted colonoscopy outcomes. CDC Division of Cancer Prevention and Control’s Ketra Rice, PhD, and colleagues compared 131 patients who ...

A new study finds that colonoscopy is strongly associated with fewer deaths from colorectal cancer. However, the risk reduction appears to be entirely due to a reduction in deaths from left-sided ...

Researchers in Ontario used data from a case-control study to determine that colonoscopy was associated with a decreased risk for disease-specific mortality in patients with colorectal cancer. The ...

Patients who undergo a complete negative colonoscopy have a reduced incidence of colorectal cancer. Patients who undergo a complete negative colonoscopy have a reduced incidence of colorectal cancer, ...

Following a negative complete colonoscopy, those who had their colonoscopies at a hospital and had their procedures performed by a non-gastroenterologist may be at a significantly increased risk of ...

Following a negative complete colonoscopy, those who had their colonoscopies at a hospital and had their procedures performed by a non-gastroenterologist may be at a significantly increased risk of ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. Back to Healio Each year, about 14 million screening ...

Pediatric colonoscopy is successful and safe if performed by endoscopists with a sufficient annual volume of procedures; new evidence-based training guidelines should be introduced to define ...

"America’s Got Talent" judge Heidi Klum recently had some memorable photos taken not of herself — but of her colon. And she’s using it to raise awareness about the importance of colon cancer screening ...

Fecal occult-blood testing and sigmoidoscopy have been recommended for screening for colorectal cancer, but the sensitivity of such combined testing for detecting neoplasia is uncertain. At 13 ...

Philadelphia, December 16, 2008 -- A new study finds that colonoscopy is strongly associated with fewer deaths from colorectal cancer. However, the risk reduction appears to be entirely due to a ...