Researchers at the University of Miami have discovered the phenomenon - dubbed accelerated ageing - may increase the risk of ...

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

New research from Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine suggests that one's biological age, which can be higher than his or her chronological age – ...

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.