Finding and removing colon polyps may help prevent colon cancer. In addition, colon cancer screening may help find cancer early, making a cure more likely. Your gastroenterologist will ...

Family history.Certain genetic conditions can run in families that can increase the risk of developing polyps and colon cancer. So if you have a parent, brother, sister, or child who has had ...

Abstract: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a multifaceted disease, but it can be effectively prevented through colonoscopy for the detection of polyps. In clinical practice, the development of automatic ...

About 107,320 new cases of colon cancer (54,510 in men and 52,810 in women ... There are a number of likely reasons for this. One is that colorectal polyps are now being found more often by screening ...

Bowel cancer can start in the large bowel (colon cancer) or the back passage (rectal cancer). Your treatment depends on whether you have colon or rectal cancer, as well as the stage of your cancer.

Medically reviewed by Robert Burakoff, MD Ileostomy and colostomy are two types of ostomy surgery that treat diseases and ...

Most people have surgery for colon cancer that hasn't spread. The operation you have depends on the position of the cancer in the bowel. This section is about surgery for cancer that starts in the ...

Medically reviewed by Doru Paul, MD An adenomatous polyp, also known as an adenoma, is an abnormal growth of cells that forms ...