The large intestine has two points under the rib cage where it bends, and the right-sided bend is called the hepatic flexure ...

Background The interleukin-22 cytokine (IL-22) has demonstrated efficacy in preclinical colitis models with non-immunosuppressive mechanism of action. Efmarodocokin alfa (UTTR1147A) is a fusion ...

colorectal cancer colonic polyps polyposis This is an open access article ... previously diagnosed with SPs proximal to the splenic flexure, SPs with dysplasia, advanced SPs, advanced adenomas, ...

BACKGROUND: Plexiform neurofibromas represent a common neoplasia of type 1 neurofibromatosis in which neurofibromas arise from multiple nerves involving connective tissue and skin and rarely affect ...

The American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) released a new clinical guideline making no recommendation — for or ...

Just when she thought life couldn’t get busier, New Jersey mom of six Elaine Griffin got diagnosed with Stage 2b colon cancer. “I was very shocked, and I think the doctors were as well because ...

The first method is visual inspection of the colon. The gold standard of these tests is the colonoscopy. This procedure involves a gastroenterologist passing a long tube through the patient’s ...

A colonoscopy found that she had cancer. “(The doctor) says, ‘Yeah, you have two masses in your colon that are cancerous,” she recalls. “It was quite a shock.” In February 2024 ...