Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Click here to read the full article. The appointment you’ve probably been dreading is here: Your first colonoscopy. And while you ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gabriella Parker, 25, has experienced digestive health issues since childhood. When she was 21, she had a colonoscopy for the ...

Not that many people get excited about the prospect of having a doctor put a scope up their bum, but consider the alternative: 50,000 people die of colorectal cancer each year. If everyone got ...

A new study of several databases in Sweden supports extending the interval between first and second colonoscopies from 10 to 15 years for low-risk individuals lacking a family history of colorectal ...

Getting a colonoscopy was the first step to gaining insight on my colon cancer. Never in a million years would I have ever thought that in my early 30sI would be getting a colonoscopy. During that ...

I don’t know why I waited so long to get my first colonoscopy. It was just like everyone had said; the day before is the worst and even that wasn’t that bad. I’ve never really been hungry before and I ...

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The appointment you’ve probably been dreading is here: Your first colonoscopy. And while you might think the procedure is a pain in the butt — pun intended — we promise it’s not as bad as you think.