Surgical site infection can be prevented via institutional, preoperative, and intraoperative interventions for colorectal ...

Rates of bowel cancer among young people have been steadily rising over the past three decades, even as diagnoses among older ...

"Stool-based test offers a promising solution to reduce the burden of a colonoscopy," experts emphasized on September 21st, ...

However experts say many of those deaths could be prevented. Colorectal cancer is one of the cancers for which effective screening exists. For one thing, colorectal cancer nearly always develops ...

Sachin Kulkarni took a good look at his life when he turned 40 and decided to get a checkup. After that, everything changed ...

For the past year, Kulkarni had noticed some gastrointestinal issues, but he suspected it was nothing more than irritable ...

As quality indicators and benchmarks for colonoscopy increase in coming years, gastroenterologists must think about ways to ...

A new GALAXY study reveals Signatera's cell-free DNA test predicts survival rates and chemotherapy benefits for colorectal ...

A colonoscopy is a procedure that looks inside the colon, using a long, flexible tube with a camera called a colonoscope. It is used to screen for colon cancer and other colon problems. A clean colon ...

The gold standard of colon cancer screening is colonoscopy, a procedure typically performed under mild sedation by a gastroenterologist. It involves the insertion of a flexible scope, called a ...

In the phase 2 NICHE-3 trial, patients with locally advanced mismatch repair-deficient colon cancer who were treated with neoadjuvant anti-PD1 and anti-LAG3 agents showed high rates of ...

Gastroenterologists perform endoscopic procedures, in which they use specialized instruments to view the GI tract and make diagnoses. They don’t perform surgery, but they may work closely with a ...