For one Rockford resident, a routine check-up led to an unexpected, life-saving intervention.

Most people with colon cancer begin treatment by having surgery to remove their cancer. If colon cancer has spread beyond your colon, you might have chemotherapy first. This can help treat cancer ...

Doctors at Advent Health in Orlando are using the newly Food and Drug Administration-approved Senhance system for minimally invasive abdominal surgery. Unlike other robotic systems, Senhance provides ...

Overall survival using local excision techniques with and without radiation compared with APR for stage I rectal cancer: A SEER based analysis No significant financial relationships to disclose. This ...

A team-based procedure for removing difficult or large precancerous colon polyps is effective and eliminates the need to take out part of a person's colon to reduce their cancer risk, a small clinical ...

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Colon cancer is common and it's preventable. Early detection saves lives. Have you been putting your colonoscopy off?

What you want to do is you want to find it when either it is very early in the course and very treatable, or even before it ...

Colonoscopy prep typically involves changing your diet a few days beforehand and taking liquid or pill laxatives that cause diarrhea to completely empty the bowels. While uncomfortable, this is a ...

The following article is written by Jen Cohrs CPC, CPMA, CGIC, member of AAPC. Colonoscopy coding is an art. There are many intricacies involved with the correct way to code a screening colonoscopy.

There may be one polyp or multiple polyps present. If your doctor discovers a polyp in your body, they’ll likely perform a biopsy. During a polyp biopsy, a sample of tissue is removed and analyzed ...