Nurse Debra Malay speaks about colonoscopy, colon cancer screening, virtual colonoscopy and barium enema testing from 6 to 7 p.m. Thursday March 12 at ShoppingTown Mall, DeWitt. It's at Upstate ...

This article explains the importance of testing for symptoms that may reveal a disease or condition that could lead to colon or rectal cancer. What is screening or surveillance? Many polyps and ...

Although rectal bleeding is usually attributable to benign causes such as diverticula, some cases result from colon cancer or other serious colorectal disorders. There is no set standard of care, ...

WHAT ARE THE MAJOR risk factors for colorectal cancer? Most people don't need to worry about colorectal cancer until around age 50; only 5 to 7 percent of cases occur in persons under 50. But about 75 ...

They’re no fun to get, but colonoscopies save lives. That’s what data on 2,602 patients, who underwent the screening test and had potentially cancerous polyps removed from their colons, showed. Over ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center researchers have found that "virtual" colonoscopy using a computer tomography (CT) scanner is considerably more expensive than the ...