A young man, diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer, talks about six red flag symptoms of the deadly disease he wishes he had ...

The following is a summary of “Risk Factors for Serrated Polyps: Results From a Large, Multicenter Colonoscopy-Based Study,” ...

Patients should also be questioned about family members who have colon polyps, and in particular the number of polyps they have had over a lifetime, in order to differentiate polyposis syndromes ...

"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 ...

Mongiu, a colon and rectal surgeon in New Haven, Connecticut, told Newsweek. "It includes multiple types of foods that we know can increase cancer risk such as red meat and processed foods.

A sessile polyp is a flat, abnormal growth of tissue on the lining of the large intestine, including the largest part called the colon. Most sessile polyps are benign (non-cancerous) and unlikely to ...