A colonoscopy is an exam that lets your physician see your entire colon. Before the test, your health care team will give you instructions for how to clear your colon of any stool. This process is ...

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - Colorectal cancer is the second most common cause of cancer deaths in both men and women in the U.S. according to the American Cancer Society. This year, more than 106,000 new ...

What you want to do is you want to find it when either it is very early in the course and very treatable, or even before it ...

Colon cancer is often thought of as a man's disease. But it isn't. The disease affects men and women equally and is the third most common type of cancer in women — after lung and breast cancer.

You already know how important it is to get screened for colorectal cancer starting at age 45, and the recent tragic passing ...

You know that you should book a mammogram every two years and a dental cleaning every year, but what about the rest of your body? A colonoscopy is a routine medical procedure that could save your life ...

Endometrial and colorectal cancers are the most common cancers in Lynch syndrome. Consensus guidelines recommend annual endometrial biopsy (EMB) and regular colonoscopies. We assessed the feasibility ...

It's a fact of midlife: After 40, we're more likely to need certain medical tests to preserve our health. Learning that you have to undergo something with a hard-to-pronounce name (what is a ...

In all, women who get the recommended screenings for breast and cervical cancer are still far more likely than other women to have their colons examined through colonoscopy or other methods, the U-M ...

Remember the girl who loved mini-skirts, roller rinks and disco dancing? Being a teenager in the 1970s - those were the days. Now the millennium has dawned and that teenage girl is in her 50s, so ...