Dysregulation of mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (mtROS) contributes to intestinal tumorigenesis. Here the authors report that excessive mtROS induces the release of mitochondrial PGAM5 into ...

Methods: The prospectively collected data were reviewed of all patients undergoing either colonoscopy or flexible sigmoidoscopy at the Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand ...

We aimed to assess whether endoscopy timing postadmission would affect outcomes. Design We conducted a retrospective, territory-wide, cohort study with healthcare data from all public hospitals in ...

Colonoscopy should be delivered by endoscopists performing high quality procedures. The British Society of Gastroenterology, the UK Joint Advisory Group on GI Endoscopy, and the Association of ...

Objective Evaluate effectiveness, harms and burdens of faecal blood testing, sigmoidoscopy and colonoscopy screening for colorectal cancer over 15 years. Design We performed an update of a Cochrane ...

While there’s no way to pin down the specific cause of polyp formation, there are a few things that can increase your risk of developing polyps and colorectal cancer: Because most colon adenomas are ...

Side effects of radiation treatment may include: During a colonoscopy, a doctor will insert a long, flexible tube with a camera on one end into the rectum to inspect the inside of the colon.

Her colon had to be “unkinked” during an emergency colonoscopy, Grenham says, then shortened to prevent it from happening again. The sigmoid colon — the part of the large intestine nearest ...

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who battled racial discrimination in a barrier-breaking career as a military nurse, serving as the first African American in the regular Army Nurse Corps and later caring ...

Naoki Hosoe; Katsuyoshi Matsuoka; Makoto Naganuma; Yosuke Ida; Yuka Ishibashi; Kayoko Kimura; Kazuaki Yoneno; Shingo Usui; Kazuhiro Kashiwagi; Tadakazu Hisamatsu ...

“If this is positive, you will be asked to come for a colonoscopy to look for cancer or early signs of cancer, for example polyps.” Dr Wall emphasises that many of these will not turn out to ...

Colon cancer cases are soaring in young people, alarming experts and leaving doctors scrambling for answers as to why. Now, a study published by a team of international researchers in the journal ...