Dr. Neelendu Dey studies whether gut microbes can be harnessed to prevent and treat colon cancer. He factors the latest ...

Having one or more of these symptoms — diarrhea, stomach pain, bloody stools, and anemia — is associated with higher risks of developing colorectal cancer before age 50.

Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) is a helpful addition to laborious visual inspection for preselection of suspected colonic polyps in virtual colonoscopy. Most of the previous work on automatic polyp ...

The recommended age to start screening for colorectal cancer was lowered in 2021 from 50 to 45 for people of average risk.

Lab testing found that the polyp was a tubular adenoma. "95 percent of colon cancers arise from that type of polyp that was in your colon," she said. "Had you not known, it continues to grow and grow ...

CONCLUSION: Polyp size is associated with presence of adenomas, a villous component, and dysplasia, whereas patient age is more frequently associated with sessile polyps in the proximal colon.

Accurately segmenting polyp regions in colonoscopy images is crucial for the diagnosis and intervention of colorectal cancer. However, the task of polyp segmentation remains challenging due to the ...