Colonoscopy, for 20 years a recommended form of screening to catch precancerous polyps, appears no better at helping to reduce deaths from colorectal cancer than a less invasive test, say researchers ...

A colonoscopy technique involving repeat intubation of the sigmoid colon significantly improves detection of adenomas compared with conventional colonoscopy evaluations, new research showed. “After ...

May 23, 2007 (Washington) — Analyses of data from the National Cancer Registry, the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End-Results (SEER) database, and colonoscopy record reviews conducted at a number of ...

The rate of new or missed left-sided colorectal cancers quadrupled with flexible sigmoidoscopy compared with colonoscopy in a retrospective analysis of 25,541 cases, according to research presented at ...

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 ...

Offering sigmoidoscopy screening to men and women in Norway reduced colorectal cancer (CRC) incidence and mortality in men, but had little or no effect in women. These findings suggest that current ...

Incidence rates for anal cancer in the United States: 1980-2009. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2013 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium. This abstract does not include a full text component ...