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A team-based procedure for removing difficult or large precancerous colon polyps is effective and eliminates the need to take out part of a person's colon to reduce their cancer risk, a small clinical ...

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Q: I had a polyp removed at my last colonoscopy. Does this mean I will get colon cancer? A: Colon polyps are abnormal growths that develop in the lining of the colon (large intestine). They are ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The results of a new study support the 2006 consensus guidelines for monitoring patients with a known increased risk of colon cancer. The guidelines recommend that a ...

BANGOR, Maine (WABI) - Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center is celebrating what it calls the first successful robotic surgery for polyp removal in the Pine Tree State. Doctor Tyler Bernaiche ...

For two years, Scott Wildung experienced daily pain, bleeding and other issues from what turned out to be an overgrown, flat and pre-cancerous polyp in his rectum. But when he woke up at Billings ...

Surgeons and gastroenterologists at the University of California Los Angeles have been performing CELS, a new minimally invasive procedure, to remove large and difficult to reach polyps in the colon, ...

A procedure that lets doctors find abnormal growths in the colon through 3-D computer-generated images is at least as accurate as a more invasive conventional colonoscopy, suggests research that was ...

SKOUT is designed to recognize suspicious tissue and provide real-time feedback to gastroenterologists. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance to SKOUT ™, a real-time ...

Social media-savvy Will Smith recorded himself preparing to undergo a colonoscopy and its aftermath for a vlog, and in the process discovered he had a precancerous polyp that had to be removed. The ...