Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Colonoscopy prevented an estimated 50 CRC cases and 15 deaths per 100,000 person-years compared with usual care.

One-time screening with flexible sigmoidoscopy reduced colorectal cancer (CRC) incidence and mortality by about 25% over two decades, according to long-term follow-up of a randomized U.K. study. Among ...

John Saltzman, MD, associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and director of endoscopy at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and John Abramson, MD, lecturer in healthcare policy ...

Researchers randomly assign more than 100,000 adults without CRC to receive once-only sigmoidoscopy screening or no screening ...

Nothing elicits a groan from patients as quickly as discussion of uncomfortable screening procedures. Yet those discussions must take place. Colorectal cancer is the third-most common cancer in the ...

Several procedures are available to screen and detect colorectal cancer, which affects the colon (large intestine) or rectum. “Undergoing regular screening can lead to the detection of polyps, and ...

Colonoscopy is at the heart of gastroenterology. It is a diagnostic and therapeutic tool and it has become the central figure in the crusade against colorectal cancer. Seven gastroenterologists ...

Updated data from the NordICC trial are consistent with previous results, while subgroup analyses provide new insights.