Sigmoid volvulus is rare in the U.S., accounting for 10% of intestinal obstruction cases, researchers note. Risk factors ...

A blood-based test (Freenome) may provide a new option for colorectal cancer screening in the average-risk US population.

A flexible sigmoidoscopy is a less invasive test than a colonoscopy that only looks at the lower part of the colon. It’s ...

Adults 45 and older should start routine colorectal cancer screenings. People at higher risk due to family history or other ...

Q. When seniors gather, it doesn’t seem to take long before we get to our aches and pains. You must get more than your share of that. A. My friend, Pete, has instituted a colonoscopy rule.

Even in the 125 patients with clinical remission, 45 (36%) had inflamed mucosa in the descending colon or the oral side of the splenic flexure. This result suggests that even when sigmoidoscopy ...

The other test besides colonoscopy that's been largely phased out in the United States, although it is still very much used in Canada and much of Europe, is flexible sigmoidoscopy. And until this ...

Note: Past or current smokers may need a yearly lung cancer scan. Get your ears and eyes checked as advised. Men 65 to 75 ...

During flexible sigmoidoscopy small polyps (<1 cm) were removed and sent for histopathological analysis. Patients were sent for colonoscopy for the presence of any polyp ≥1 cm, ≥3 adenomas ...

Medicare covers a colonoscopy with no Part B deductible ... and Four years after a flexible sigmoidoscopy for those who are at average risk. When there are twists to the rules, there can be ...