A new poll from researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health and Knowledge Networks shows that many people with heart disease, diabetes or cancer, including colorectal cancer, believe the economic downturn is hurting their health and will have further…
GI & Endoscopy
Researchers suggest capsule endoscopy should be the first-line modality for detecting small bowel Crohn's disease in patients without endoscopic or clinical suspicion of stenosis, according to an article published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology.
Here are 12 statistics on GI/endoscopy based on number of operating rooms, according to data from VMG Health’s Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2010.
A trained eight-year-old Labrador retriever named Marine was able to detect colorectal cancer accurately at least 95 percent of the time, according to a study published in Gut.
Mesquite Gastroenterology and Surgery Center in Tucson, Ariz., opened in June 2010, according to Katie Belk-Arenas, owner/administrator for the ambulatory surgery center.
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Colorectal screening recommendations for first-degree relatives of individuals diagnosed with an adenoma before age 60 may be too aggressive, researchers argue in an article published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology.
Although medical literature has shown computerized tomographic colonography and optical colonoscopy are both effective at detecting advanced adenomas, recent research indicates optical colonoscopy programs are significantly more effective at detecting non-advanced adenomas, according to an article published in American Journal…
Because many colorectal cancers develop as a result of missed lesions during an earlier colonoscopy, researchers assessed the rate and predictors of colorectal cancer diagnosed within three years of a colonoscopy, according to a study published in the American Journal…
Researchers suggest bisphosphonate could potentially reduce the risk of colorectal cancer, but more randomized trials should be carried out to confirm their results, according to an Internal Medicine News report.
Although colorectal cancer screening techniques can decrease the incidence of colon cancer by 75 percent, multiple studies published in medical literature cite a broad range of reasons patients forgo colorectal cancer screening. Stacey Weiland, MD, discusses five ways GI physicians…