This important procedure doesn’t have to feel awkward or embarrassing. Here’s what to know to make it easier.

For more than two decades, colonoscopy has been promoted as the gold standard for colorectal cancer screening. Policy makers ...

A first-in-human trial of a robotic colonoscopy shows the system can perform all functions of a colonoscope with promising ...

If you’re between the ages of 45 and 85, you should have a colorectal cancer screening routine in place, per the American Cancer Society (ACS). But a colonoscopy—in which your doctor uses a special ...

Alongside improved colorectal cancer treatment, benefits are "more modest," expert says ...

The number of annual colonoscopies performed in the U.S. is projected to decline over the next decade as use of noninvasive ...

Some screenings and treatments no longer make sense for patients as they age. Researchers have just added a few more to the ...

Three years after NordICC trial’s much-debated 10-year results were published, follow-up data showed colonoscopy screening ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I was 47 when my first colonoscopy found a villous adenoma, and during the past 21 years, I’ve had eight or ...

The Triton Robotic Endoscopy System from Neptune Medical shows no adverse events and 100% cecal intubation in colonoscopy in ...

People of average risk for colon cancer should get a screening or colonoscopy earlier than previously advised.

Colorectal endoscopy, skin lesion removal, and thyroid medication—long considered routine for elderly patients—may not always ...