You know that you should book a mammogram every two years and a dental cleaning every year, but what about the rest of your body? A colonoscopy is a routine medical procedure that could save your life ...

The devastating statistics about deaths from colon cancer have put the spotlight on a dreaded disease, which, today, could be ...

Don’t be overconfident of that recent colonoscopy’s clean bill of health. That’s the lesson of a new study suggesting that colonoscopies reduce the risk of dying from colorectal cancer not by up to 90 ...

Colonoscopies performed by surgeons and other endoscopists were associated with lower adenoma detection rates compared to those done by gastroenterologists, according to a meta-analysis. In a ...

Editor's Note: This article is made possible through a sponsored content partnership with New Hanover Regional Medical Center. A colonoscopy can help prevent colon cancer because a doctor will remove ...

Following a negative complete colonoscopy, those who had their colonoscopies at a hospital and had their procedures performed by a non-gastroenterologist may be at a significantly increased risk of ...