A study published in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy suggests dynamic patient position changes during the withdrawal period of a colonoscopy can significantly increase the detection of polyps and adenomas.

UPPER EAST SIDE, Manhattan (WABC) -- Patrick Hellen is an avid golfer who was in good health when he underwent a routine colonoscopy in 2017. The procedure revealed a polyp in the cecum - the first ...

A study evaluating the use of a recommended withdrawal time of six minutes from the cecum in colonoscopy procedures supports this practice as a way to improve the detection of polyps, according to ...

Researchers have found that technically efficient screening and diagnostic colonoscopy generally requires experience with 150 cases or more. Colonoscopy is a fiberoptic (endoscopic) procedure in which ...

October 29, 2010 (San Antonio, Texas) — The use of a retroflexion technique in the proximal colon during colonoscopy improves the yield of polyps and the miss rate associated with lesions on the ...

“Not all colon polyps are cancerous but all colon cancer starts as a polyp which is why everyone needs to know about them and be screened regularly for them,” says Fola May, MD, a gastroenterologist ...