Researchers thought calcium supplementation might reduce development of precancerous colorectal polyps. It didn't. Calcium supplementation alone more than doubled the risk for serrated sessile ...

Researchers studying over 8,400 colonoscopies discovered that having both adenomas and serrated polyps in the bowel can raise the risk of serious precancerous changes by up to five times. These two ...

Patients with any polyp subtype had a higher risk than the general population of developing colorectal cancer (CRC) in a Swedish cohort that had generally not been previously screened, a large ...

A total of 427 subjects were prospectively enrolled by 3 endoscopists in this randomized controlled trial between September 2009 and October 2010. Seven subjects were excluded (five due to failed ...

We obtained 24,584 pathology reports from colonoscopies performed at the University of Utah’s Gastroenterology Clinic. Two investigators annotated 350 reports to determine inter-rater agreement, ...

An article published in Gastroenterology points to the growing data associating serrated polyps and their size, number and histologic features to colorectal cancer and suggests revisions to polyp ...

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Patients with incomplete colorectal polyp resections were at higher risk for more metachronous neoplasia and advanced neoplasia compared to patients who had a complete polyp resection, a post-hoc ...

Sessile polyps are flat growths that develop in the colon or intestines. There are several types of sessile polyps. These include sessile serrated adenomas, villous adenomas, tubular adenomas, and ...

Detecting and characterizing colonic polyps using high-definition imaging and narrow-band imaging (NBI) has yielded modest results. Now, two randomized studies have substantiated the role of NBI in ...