A little tool called a Speculum or hydro cleanser is used for colon cleansing of patients. This permits warm, filtered water to enter the colon in a gentle and controlled way and clean any toxic ...

The PR-OCT imaging detected images of colon cancer (top photo) and of normal colon tissue. The green boxes indicate the scores of probability of the predicted "teeth" patterns in the tissue. [Zhu Lab] ...

Colorectal cancer is the second most common type of cancer worldwide, with about 90% of cases occurring in people 50 or older. Arising from the inner surface, or muscosal layer, of the colon, ...

Boldly going where no robot has gone before, a new micro-machine from Purdue University could vault its way to the forefront of targeted drug delivery. Scientists at the university’s School of ...

The role of adjuvant chemotherapy in stage II colon cancer continues to be debated. The presence of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) after surgery predicts very poor recurrence-free survival, whereas its ...