Past research has shown low-volume bowel prep to be similarly safe and effective as high-volume prep, but that was in ...

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 ...

New blood tests are now available to screen for colorectal (colon) cancer, providing a simpler alternative to traditional ...

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 ...

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

Design In a multicentre, prospective study, outpatients undergoing colonoscopy from 8:00 to 14:00 were given written instructions for 4 L polyethylene glycol bowel preparation, offering the choice ...

But Dr. Derek Ebner, a gastroenterology fellow at the Mayo Clinic, has some suggestions on how to make colonoscopy bowel prep easier. "The entire spirit of doing the colonoscopy prep is to make ...

However, the blood test isn't as effective as colonoscopy at detecting and preventing colon cancer, a new review finds. About two and a half times more colon cancer deaths can be expected to occur in ...

Newly available blood tests to screen for colorectal cancer sound far more appealing than a standard colonoscopy ... Stanford Medicine concluded that the new tests are ideal for people who ...