Q: Five years ago, I had a routine colonoscopy where a small polyp was removed. My family doctor is advising me to have a follow-up colonoscopy now, but the gastroenterologist’s office says that I don ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Endoscopic removal of colorectal adenomas reduces the incidence and mortality of colorectal cancer (CRC), but follow-up surveillance is ...

Berberine significantly reduced adenoma recurrence and colorectal neoplasm occurrence in a 6-year follow-up study of nearly 800 patients post-polypectomy. The study found that berberine's ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with small adenomas — between 6 mm and 9 mm in size — at baseline colonoscopy have an elevated risk for ...

June 20, 2011 — Suboptimal bowel preparation is associated with a substantially lower efficacy of colonoscopy to detect adenomas, suggesting the need for an early follow-up examination, according to ...

Colonoscopy is being increasingly used for colorectal cancer screening, which has resulted in a growing cohort of patients who have polyps that require ...

The proportion of screening colonoscopic examinations performed by a physician that detect one or more adenomas (the adenoma detection rate) is a recommended quality measure. However, little is known ...

For adults who develop adenomas before age 50, the risk of developing colorectal cancer (CRC) and dying from it is low, especially for nonadvanced adenomas, but even for advanced adenomas, new data ...

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 ...

A colorectal polyp is a growth that may present on the lining of the colon or rectum. While these are fairly common and affect between 15-20% of the adult population, they are not usually associated ...

Show More Cari M. Kitahara, Sonja I. Berndt, Amy Berrington de González, Wen-Yi Huang, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD; Helen G. Coleman, Centre for Public ...