Will Smith, the baddest and most recognized film actor barred it all for his viewers in his new Vlog. Smith kept things real and vlogged his first colonoscopy while in Miami. Of course, he did it with ...

Getting a colonoscopy is an often dreaded part of getting older. But the test is supposed to help find and even help prevent colon cancer. Now a new study suggests showing up is half the battle.

Colorectal cancer is common, deadly and highly treatable if detected early. Aside from skin cancers, “colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer diagnosed in both men and women in the United ...

March was designated as Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month back in 2000 as a way to remind people to get screened for the disease. The Center for Disease Control reports that cancer of the colon or ...

Over the past decade or so, sigmoidoscopy has been largely abandoned by doctors in the U.S. in favor of colonoscopy to detect and prevent colon... A big study of a colon cancer test called flexible ...

There are some things that deserve repeating, my mother used to say when I was a teen (and yes, I can remember that long ago). Back then, I'd say, "Yes, yes, you told me that already," and before she ...

A new kind of test that finds evidence of colon cancer in the stool can also detect pre-cancerous growths, and could potentially be an alternative to colonoscopies, researchers reported Thursday.

Colonoscopy performed within 6 months before or after total joint arthroplasty (TJA) did not increase the risk of periprosthetic joint infection (PJI), according to a retrospective cohort study. In an ...

While guideline-concordant post-polypectomy colonoscopy surveillance was associated with a reduced risk of incident ...