A patient navigation program significantly improved the odds that people would get a colonoscopy after receiving an abnormal ...

About the expert Adrienna Jirik, MD, is a board-certified gastroenterologist at Cleveland Clinic, where she has been providing care since 2016. She completed advanced fellowships in ...

After having her symptoms dismissed by doctors, Sydney Stoner, 27, decided to lie and say she had blood in her stool to get a ...

Laura Dundovic has revealed her bowel cancer scare after a routine colonoscopy. The Aussie model, 38, has shared that doctors found 15 polyps when she underwent a routine check on Monday ...

Sometimes, they just put it off, said Dr. Antoine Pham, an internal medicine doctor with Thrive Medical. He has started prescribing a new kind of screening — the Shield blood test — for his patients ...

The deceased’s husband, Deepak Salvi, has claimed that an innocuous colonoscopy led to perforation, resulting in Megha’s ...

Jim Blocher, a 67-year-old uninsured man, discovered he has precancerous polyps after receiving a free colonoscopy at the ...

Between ages 76 and 85, consult with your doctor about your personal risk factors. After 85, regular colonoscopy is not recommended. Early stages are typically diagnosed by preventive screenings ...

What she initially thought would be a standard procedure taken out of an abundance of caution turned out to become a serious ...

Researchers analysed data of 10,508 patients who underwent colonoscopy with polypectomy ... using standardised incidence ratios (SIRs). After SC1, the cumulative incidence of CRC at 3 years ...

"It is important for patients with abnormal stool test results to get a colonoscopy as soon as possible to prevent an increased risk of colorectal cancer and later-stage cancer detection," said ...