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2. How to make your colonoscopy prep more effective and less ...

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   A colonoscopy is considered the best way to screen for colon cancer because it allows doctors to remove polyps — small growths in the colon — before they potentially turn cancerous.

3. Colonoscopies 101: How to Prepare for Your First One

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   Colonoscopies are performed under moderate sedation or anesthesia. You’ll be asleep, or near asleep, the whole time. The medications used will depend on a variety of factors, including where the ...

4. Colonic polypectomy - Wikipedia

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   Colonic polypectomy is the removal of colorectal polyps in order to prevent them from turning cancerous.. Method of removing a polyp with a snare. Gastrointestinal polyps can be removed endoscopically through colonoscopy or esophagogastroduodenoscopy, or surgically if the polyp is too large to be removed endoscopically.

5. Colonoscopy - Wikipedia

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   Colonoscopy (/ ˌ k ɒ l ə ˈ n ɒ s k ə p i /) or coloscopy (/ k ə ˈ l ɒ s k ə p i /) [1] is a medical procedure involving the endoscopic examination of the large bowel (colon) and the distal portion of the small bowel. This examination is performed using either a CCD camera or a fiber optic camera, which is mounted on a flexible tube ...

6. Endoclip - Wikipedia

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   Endoclips have found a primary application in hemostasis (or the stopping of bleeding) during endoscopy of the upper (through gastroscopy) or lower (through colonoscopy) gastrointestinal tract. [1] Many bleeding lesions have been successfully clipped, including bleeding peptic ulcers , [ 4 ] Mallory-Weiss tears of the esophagus , [ 8 ...

7. Dreading a colonoscopy? There are alternatives | Savvy Senior

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   DEAR STEVEN: While a colonoscopy remains the most accurate screening test for detecting colon cancer (94% accurate), there are other easier — although less accurate — tests available. But be ...

8. Lower gastrointestinal series - Wikipedia

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   Polyps can be seen, though not removed during the exam like with a colonoscopy—they may be cancerous. Other problems such as diverticulosis (small pouches formed on the colon wall that can become inflamed) and intussusception can be found (and in certain cases the test itself can treat intussusception).

9. Mayim Bialik shares her colonoscopy journey with fans: 'It’s ...

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   A doctor ended up removing an extremely subtle polyp on the right side of Reynolds's colon, which the doctor described as "potentially lifesaving." A doctor also removed three small polyps from ...