Prep for colonoscopy usually involves a laxative beverage to clean you out before providers examine the bowels. Here’s what ...

Everyone knows that colonoscopies save lives, but that doesn't make drinking a lot of liquid laxatives in preparation for the ...

Approximately one in four individuals undergoing colonoscopy has an inadequate bowel preparation. Data from two retrospective studies indicate that 42–48% of colon polyps are missed on ...

A colonoscopy is considered the best way to screen for colon cancer ... If you had a poor experience with any of the bowel ...

Poor bowel preparation also led to repeat colonoscopies for 18.9% of current GLP-1RA users, compared to 11.1% of controls ...

The gold standard screening test for cancer in your colon or rectum, colorectal cancer, is a colonoscopy. This is done at a doctor's office under sedation, after a day of preparation that involves ...

Stanford researchers found that new blood tests for colorectal cancer screening are not as effective as colonoscopies or ...

Hello, and thank you for joining us today for what promises to be a lively discussion about screening for colon cancer. My name is Perry Wilson. I am an associate professor of medicine at the Yale ...

The system-wide implementation of a split-dose preparation as the primary choice for colonoscopy significantly improved both polyp detection rates and precancerous polyp detection rates.

Similar findings were reported by another group of Korean investigators who prospectively studied the quality of bowel preparation in 300 subjects undergoing colonoscopy. [14] All subjects were ...