A study published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that women might be able to delay scheduling regular colonoscopies a few years past the generally recommended age ...

Shaily Jain, MD, a gastroenterologist practicing out of Digestive Health Specialists in Washington, has written a column on the importance of women receiving colon cancer screenings. The column ...

A new study, published in GIE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, the scientific journal of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, reports that the diagnostic yield of colonoscopy to ...

The new guidelines are another method of keeping a high-quality standard for colorectal cancer screening. The latest recommendations on quality indicators for colonoscopy were released on August 22, ...

New guidelines introduce quality indicators like bowel preparation adequacy and sessile serrated lesion detection rates for colonoscopy. The adenoma detection rate (ADR) threshold increased from 30% ...

Individuals who do not complete followup colonoscopy after a positive stool test could be at substantially higher risk for ...