While colorectal cancer polyps often have no symptoms—especially in the early stages—there are some warning signs to be on ...

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New ‘concerning’ data find that most US endoscopists aren’t following current polypectomy guidelines for polyps < 1 cm, ...

A finding of any type of polyp in the colon increases the risk for colorectal cancer (CRC), according to new findings from a large Swedish study. At 10 years, the cumulative colorectal cancer ...

In terms of CRC mortality, however, the risk increased only in patients with sessile serrated polyps, tubulovillous adenomas, or villous adenomas but not in those with hyperplastic polyps or tubular ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Sessile serrated polyp detection rate was the only quality metric reduced when trainees participated in ...

A research group form the United States investigated how proximal colon polyps interpreted as hyperplastic polyps in 2001 would be interpreted by expert pathologists in 2007. They found that many ...

Large sessile colonic polyps can be managed safely and effectively by endoscopic mucosal resection, but previous attempts increase the risk of failure, according to a report in Gastroenterology. In a ...

Institutional review board approval was obtained for this study. Formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded samples of serrated, adenomatous and hyperplastic colon lesions were identified in the archives of ...

Use of GI Genius increased mean adenomas per colonoscopy (1.56 vs. 1.21) as well as adenoma detection rate (56.6% vs. 48.4%). The module also had a higher sessile serrated polyp detection rate (11.6% ...

An endoscopic technique known as retroflexion, when used in the right side of the colon, may increase the diagnostic yield of polyps, including large adenomas (larger than 10 millimeters) and serrated ...

Hot snare polypectomy outperforms cold snare polypectomy when it comes to removing flat or sessile intermediate-sized polyps, according to a recent study discussed in Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News ...