ANSWER: A colonoscopy is both a screening tool for cancer and a way to prevent cancer by removing polyps before they can get ...

The following information was submitted by Intermountain Health.Colorectal cancer is the second most common cancer and the ...

Cases of early onset colorectal cancer, occurring in people between the ages of 20 and 45, have increased in recent decades.

Emily Alinger was 25 years old when she went in for a routine colonoscopy that may have saved her life. Alinger was told she had a precancerous polyp, an abnormal growth on the lining of the colon ...