The introduction of bowel cancer screening, in the United Kingdom, United States of America, and many other Western countries, has provided considerable interest and no little diagnostic consternation ...

Bridging mucosal folds represent a variant of inflammatory polyps seen in inflammatory bowel disease. Inflammatory polyps occur as part of the healing and regenerative process involving the mucosal ...

The sigmoid colon is the last section of the bowel — the part that attaches to the rectum. It pushes feces along the bowel tract. It’s about a foot and a half long (around 40 centimeters) and is ...

Japan’s legendary golfer Masashi “Jumbo” Ozaki died at the age of 78 due to colon cancer. Ozaki, who claimed his first of 94 titles on the Japanese circuit in 1973, including six Japan PGA ...

April 7, 2010 — The prevalence of common structural abnormalities of the colon, including polyps, hemorrhoids, colorectal cancer (CRC), and diverticulosis, is no higher in nonconstipated patients with ...