UPPER EAST SIDE, Manhattan (WABC) -- Patrick Hellen is an avid golfer who was in good health when he underwent a routine colonoscopy in 2017. The procedure revealed a polyp in the cecum - the first ...

October 29, 2010 (San Antonio, Texas) — The use of a retroflexion technique in the proximal colon during colonoscopy improves the yield of polyps and the miss rate associated with lesions on the ...

For diseases and conditions in which surgery was previously the only treatment option, advancements in endoscopic techniques and technology continue to provide patients and their providers with less ...

For the majority of patients with large or difficult to remove colorectal polyps (growths in the colon), the incidence of cancer is actually lower than previously thought, and using more advanced ...

WASHINGTON, DC — The chance that a screening sigmoidoscopy will miss a potentially cancerous polyp increases with age, and is up to 50% for people 70 years and older, an analysis of more than 120,000 ...

Patients were recruited between 2003 and 2010 as part of the Tennessee Colorectal Polyp Study. Red meat intake and cigarette smoking status, duration, and frequency were the strongest risk factors for ...

Researchers have found that technically efficient screening and diagnostic colonoscopy generally requires experience with 150 cases or more. Colonoscopy is a fiberoptic (endoscopic) procedure in which ...

Most colorectal polyps are benign. However, large polyps can cause constipation and other symptoms and are more likely to be cancerous. Colorectal polyps are small growths that form on the lining of ...

The incidence of cancer is actually lower than previously thought, for the majority of patients with large or difficult to remove colorectal polyps (growths in the colon). Using more advanced ...