It's a rite of passage none of us really look forward to: Once we turn 45, it's recommended that we get a colonoscopy to screen for polyps and colon cancer. This is especially important as rates of ...
Colorectal cancer is preventable and ‘highly treatable’ if detected early, according to the National Cancer Institute.Photograph: Halfpoint/Getty Images Colorectal cancer is the third-most diagnosed ...
I let the Mexiclan — a text chat of my closest friends — know what I was about to do. Memes citing the farting scene from ...
It turns out that despite everything you’ve heard, getting a colonoscopy is wonderful. By Sam Anderson For many of us, a colonoscopy is a distant inevitable horror, like the heat death of the universe ...
But you’ll need to test more frequently, every one to three years instead of every 10 years for a colonoscopy. Anyone with an ...
Dr. Yazan Numan, cancer medicine reseacher, joins Wendy Snyder, filling in for Lisa Dent to discuss the increased rate of ...
Sam Anderson just had his first colonoscopy in middle age, and he encourages others to do the same. But Anderson's essay in ...
Dr. Jeffrey Kopin, Chief Medical Officer for Northwestern Medicine Catherine Gratz Griffin Lake Forest Hospital, joins John Williams to talk about how someone typically catch a cold, the ...