The gold standard colonoscopy is still the preferred method for finding colon cancer, but on this World Cancer Day, we're hearing more about a simple blood test that could get more ...

In August, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed House Bill 2385, mandating insurance coverage for all colonoscopies for patients exhibiting symptoms of colon cancer or having an existing colon condition ...

Alarmed by the color and frequency of the blood in her stool, Mahon was referred to a GI doctor who initially thought she had an autoimmune disease. “Once I got the colonoscopy, she told me that she ...

A promising experimental blood test has shown the ability to accurately detect colon cancer with 81% accuracy in patients and correctly rule it out in 90% of healthy individuals. This less ...

Similar findings were reported by another group of Korean investigators who prospectively studied the quality of bowel preparation in 300 subjects undergoing colonoscopy. [14] All subjects were ...

No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript. Bowel preparations for colonoscopy vary with respect to their efficacy, tolerability and safety. Selecting the most ...

Oral anticoagulant or antiplatelet medication use had no substantial effect on the accuracy of multitarget stool DNA testing for colorectal cancer, according to a study published in Gastro Hep ...

St. Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids has announced that it is now offering patients enhanced colonoscopies with the GI Genius ...

I’ve been diagnosed with silent celiac disease at the late age of 62, but I probably had it for decades. (It may have led to my serious osteoporosis.) ...

Doctors in Dallas and other parts of Texas are beginning to use a new blood test that can detect colon cancer earlier. The ...

Several therapeutic advances have been achieved over the past two decades for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The expanding ...

Last week a patient came to see me looking very unwell. Having just come out of hospital after her first attack of diverticulitis, she was understandably anxious to learn how to ward off further ...