Colonoscopy, for 20 years a recommended form of screening to catch precancerous polyps, appears no better at helping to reduce deaths from colorectal cancer than a less invasive test, say researchers ...

The rate of new or missed left-sided colorectal cancers quadrupled with flexible sigmoidoscopy compared with colonoscopy in a retrospective analysis of 25,541 cases, according to research presented at ...

May 23, 2007 (Washington) — Analyses of data from the National Cancer Registry, the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End-Results (SEER) database, and colonoscopy record reviews conducted at a number of ...

FOBT-positive patients who skipped colonoscopy had fourfold higher cancer incidence ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Colonoscopy prevented an estimated 50 CRC cases and 15 deaths per 100,000 person-years compared with usual care.

Doctors say there are less invasive screening options for colon cancer, but each comes with tradeoffs.

One-time screening with flexible sigmoidoscopy reduced colorectal cancer (CRC) incidence and mortality by about 25% over two decades, according to long-term follow-up of a randomized U.K. study. Among ...

Dear Dr. Roach: This past weekend, during my son’s wedding festivities, I experienced a sigmoid volvulus. Doctors recommended surgery, but I opted for a colonoscopy, which was performed successfully.