The risk of developing colorectal cancer in patients with colitis-associated dysplasia is considerable. Surveillance programs in patients with ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease aim to detect ...

Credit: Getty Images A 29-year-old man undergoes a total proctocolectomy with end-to-end ileostomy after 2 years of surveillance for ulcerative colitis. A 29-year-old White man presents in May 2023 ...

Although the risk of developing dysplasia and carcinomas in the colon is known to increase over time in patients with ulcerative colitis, data are scarce on the need for surveillance colonoscopies in ...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has a well-established association with the development of colorectal cancer, with both ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease known to increase the risk for this ...

Testing for somatic genomic copy number alterations (CNAs) in ulcerative colitis patients with low-grade dysplasia was able to predict risk of advanced neoplasia more accurately than other currently ...

In a Healio video exclusive, Rene D. Gomez-Esquivel, MD, discusses risk factors for pediatric colon cancer, as well as best practices for screening and lesion resection, from his presentation at the ...

Chromoendoscopy is superior to random biopsy or white-light colonoscopy in detecting dysplasia in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), according to a long-term surveillance study.

ACF, first described by Bird et al. [1] in carcinogen-treated mice, and subsequently identified in humans, have been the focus of increasing study in recent years. ACF, which appear as isolated, ...

Q: What is endoscopy? Can you describe the procedure? A: Gastrointestinal endoscopy is the examination of any part of the GI tract with an endoscope, which is a flexible instrument that has a video ...

After demonstrating that light accurately detected pre-cancerous cells in the lining of the esophagus, bioengineers turned their technology to the colon and have achieved similar results in a series ...

A: Serrated adenomas are polyps that simultaneously demonstrate the serrated architecture typical of hyperplastic polyps and the epithelial dysplasia of conventional adenomas. They are a subset of a ...

DURHAM, N.C. – After demonstrating that light accurately detected pre-cancerous cells in the lining of the esophagus, Duke University bioengineers turned their technology to the colon and have ...