Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After the fasting, the uncomfortable cleanse and a drowsy ride home, it’s a relief to have your colonoscopy screening behind you.

Doctors at Advent Health in Orlando are using the newly Food and Drug Administration-approved Senhance system for minimally invasive abdominal surgery. Unlike other robotic systems, Senhance provides ...

Sept. 24 -- TUESDAY, Sept. 23 (HealthDay News) -- Black people undergoing colon cancer screening are more likely to have large precancerous polyps than are whites. Black men had a 16 percent increased ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Blacks are more likely than whites to have large colon polyps, and their tumors tend to be located higher in the colon where they are harder to detect, U.S. researchers said on ...

Colon cancer symptoms often don't exist. An active woman shares how repeated nudges from a loved one led to her diagnosis: "My entire life changed that day." ...

For diseases and conditions in which surgery was previously the only treatment option, advancements in endoscopic techniques and technology continue to provide patients and their providers with less ...

A new study suggests that large amounts of folic acid don't prevent the growth of pre-cancerous polyps in the colon, contrary to earlier belief. A new study suggests that large amounts of folic acid ...

“[This] study suggests that endoscopic clipping is not necessary to prevent post-polypectomy bleeding after [endoscopic mucosal resection] of large serrated polyps,” Seth D. Crockett, MD, MPH, ...

DEAR DOCTOR K >> My young son had rectal bleeding caused by a colon polyp, which the doctor surgically removed. Why did he develop a polyp? Can we do anything to prevent more polyps from forming? DEAR ...

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, and experts at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center are encouraging men and women to learn more about colon polyps and how they affect a ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Obese and overweight people are more likely to develop colon polyps, a possible precursor to cancer, than are slimmer individuals, according to a new review of past ...

For 10% of colorectal cancer patients, hereditary factors play a role, with higher percentages among younger patients.