All the signs and symptoms of diverticulitis that people need to take note to watch for as Virgin Media presenter Alan Hughes was hospitalised with the health condition ...

Diverticulitis is a digestive condition in which inflamed or infected pockets form in the large intestine (colon). People with an advanced case may have narrow stools or very small stools shaped like ...

(4) A positive FIT result does not necessarily indicate cancer and may indicate other conditions, such as hemorrhoids, inflammatory bowel disease, diverticulitis, or colitis. (5) Also, FIT tests ...

Colorectal cancer is a type of cancer that starts in the colon (large intestine ... and most people pay out-of-pocket for healthcare?” he said. A recent screening study conducted in Nigeria during the ...

A PET-CT (positron emission tomography) scan was requested to restage her disease which noted reactive changes at the surgical site as expected, however, a focus of intense FDG (flurodeoxyglucose) ...

Uncomplicated diverticulosis was not associated with increased abdominal pain or altered bowel habits. "Our results do not support that uncomplicated diverticulosis causes symptoms in individuals ...

And if the diverticula - clusters of little pockets or sacs inside the bowel, also called 'bunches of grapes', which they resemble ¿ that give diverticulitis its name become infected, you can ...

Colon cancer has been on the rise in Americans under 50 for the last three decades, but it’s not exactly clear why. Researchers suspect poor diet, obesity, sedentary lifestyles, environmental ...

Potential of Blood-Based Tests for Early Cancer Detection The device detects a colon cancer secreted protein known as CCSP-2. The protein’s presence in colon cancer cells is 78 times higher than ...

J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2007;22(9):1360-1368. Our study has several limitations. The most important limitation is that the comparative studies we included in our review were not randomized ...