Patients at low and intermediate risk for colorectal cancer may not require postpolypectomy surveillance, according to research published in Gut. Amanda J. Cross, PhD, of the department of surgery and ...

A new study that compares cold snare polypectomy with conventional polypectomy for the removal of small colorectal polyps in anticoagulated patients. The study showed that delayed bleeding requiring ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Polypectomy is a fundamental practice in colonoscopy, well known to effectively reduce colon cancer incidence ...

Cold snare polypectomy (CSP) is superior to hot snare polypectomy (HSP) for colorectal polyps measuring 4-10 mm, a pragmatic randomized controlled trial confirms. In the Taiwan Cold Polypectomy Study, ...

For nonpedunculated polyps measuring 3 mm or less, cold forceps polypectomy is noninferior to cold snare polypectomy and takes significantly less time, according to the results of the TINYPOLYP trial.

Annual fecal immunochemical test-based surveillance could be as effective as colonoscopies in reducing long-term colorectal cancer incidence and mortality, according to a recent study published in ...

Preoperative radiotherapy for select T4 primary and locally recurrent colon cancers: Experience from an Australian quaternary centre. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2023 ASCO Annual Meeting ...

NEW YORK, June 15 (Praxis Press) Whether colonoscopy is more effective than barium enema for the detection of adenomas in polypectomy patients is unclear. Winawer and colleagues examined 580 ...

We previously reported that colonoscopic polypectomy in the National Polyp Study (NPS) cohort reduced the incidence of colorectal cancer. 5 An important question is whether the cancers prevented by ...

Editor’s Note: This article by Paul Cadorette, director of education for mdStrategies, originally appeared in The Coding Advocate, mdStrategies free monthly newsletter. Sign-up to receive this ...

DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. – March 21, 2014 – In recognition of National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, GIE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy has published a special issue for March on colorectal cancer. The ...