This important procedure doesn’t have to feel awkward or embarrassing. Here’s what to know to make the test and the colonoscopy prep easier.

Immunotherapy wipes out some colorectal tumors without surgery, signaling a major shift toward less invasive treatment.

Most people with colon cancer begin treatment by having surgery to remove their cancer. If colon cancer has spread beyond your colon, you might have chemotherapy first. This can help treat cancer ...

Colon cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer if you don’t count skin cancers. If the cancer hasn’t spread, then one of the possible treatments is a sigmoid colectomy. That may be a ...

For years, the gold standard in screening for colon cancer has been a colonoscopy. But a colonoscopy is a medical procedure that involves length prep work, along with being put under, making it ...

Why Do People Get a Colonoscopy for Ulcerative Colitis? Ulcerative colitis is a type of inflammatory bowel disease that causes inflammation and sores to form in the large intestine and rectum. It ...

Wes Hensel had complained to his doctors about occasional rectal bleeding for 4 years. But his gastroenterologist assured him ...

Who says colonoscopy prep can't come with a tiny drink umbrella?

Detection and diagnosis of colon polyps are key to preventing colorectal cancer. Recent evidence suggests that AI-based computer-aided detection (CADe) and computer-aided diagnosis (CADx) systems can ...

An option long available in Europe is now offered for Indiana patients. The TEM procedure is a way to remove polyps and more without major surgery. When a problem was detected in Bernard Murphy's ...

David Lampl, a scuba diver by trade, faced sharks but never imagined facing colon cancer at 42. “I had zero symptoms. You would never, ever known anything was wrong or different,” David says. His mom ...