If your doctor recommends you have a colonoscopy, don’t worry. You may think it’s going to be a terrible procedure, but it won’t be. Most likely you won’t even be awake to remember it.

Among these patients, inflamed mucosa in the descending colon or the oral side of the splenic flexure was observed endoscopically in 54 (40%). Even in the 125 patients with clinical remission ...

To prepare for a colonoscopy, you may need to avoid fiber in the days leading up to your appointment and follow a clear liquid diet beginning the day before. Preparation also involves taking ...

You’ve probably heard of “colorectal cancer,” but colon cancer and rectal cancer aren’t the same. If you or someone you’re close to has it, you’ll want to know what they have in common ...

Bowel cancer can start in the large bowel (colon cancer) or back passage (rectal cancer). It is also called colorectal cancer. This section is about treatment for colon cancer that hasn't spread to ...

NOS OR descending colon OR hepatic flexure of colon OR overlapping lesion of colon OR retrosigmoid junction OR rectum NOS OR sigmoid colon OR splenic flexure of colon OR transverse colon NOTE.

Before a colonoscopy, it’s important to follow any dietary instructions your doctor gives you so your bowels are fully prepped for the procedure. But did you know that what you eat after a ...

Colon cancer symptoms in women include diarrhea, constipation, unintended weight loss, and bloody stools. While these are the same for anyone with colon cancer, symptoms in women may be misattributed ...

Table 4 Treatment of Carcinoma of Splenic Flexure. There were 6 cases of cancer of the descending colon — all resectable (Table 5). In 4 cases a resection and end-to-end suture were done ...