Lower detection of polyps leads to higher rates of subsequent colon cancer. Artificial intelligence may improve the situation ...

This is no way to do your own colonoscopy. Vietnamese doctors removed a live 2-foot-long eel from a man’s abdomen — that had chewed through his intestines after he shoved it up his anus.

The Chicago health care consultant contacted his physician at Northwestern Medicine, who referred him for a diagnostic colonoscopy, at least partly because Contos, 45, has a family history of ...

there may be a need to have another colonoscopy sooner than 10 years (such as three or five years). People who have a family or a personal history of colon and rectal cancer or who live with a ...

The Chicago health-care consultant contacted his physician at Northwestern Medicine, who referred Contos, 45, for a colonoscopy, citing in part a family history of colon issues. “My primary-care ...

Tom Contos is an avid runner. When he started experiencing rectal bleeding in March, he thought exercise could be the cause and tried to ignore it. But he became increasingly ...