In the prevention of colorectal cancer (CRC), hyperplastic polyps have long been regarded as innocent bystanders and only adenomas were thought to be precursors for CRC. Therefore, focus during ...

Colon polyps have a greater chance of developing into colon cancer, and colonoscopy is one of the most commonly used methods to detect colon polyps. However, the effectiveness of colonoscopy depends ...

A prospective multi-centre study of 222 endoscopically removable polyps (excluding fundic gastric polyps and polyposis syndrome) showed complete histological agreement between initial biopsies and ...

Background: In patients with juvenile polyposis syndrome (JPS) the frequency of large genomic deletions in the SMAD4 and BMPR1A genes was unknown. Methods: Mutation and phenotype analysis was used in ...