Roughly 20-50% of women have these growths in the uterus. Only a third are big enough for a doctor to discover them during a physical exam. Most are non-cancerous, posing no higher cancer risk. These ...

Large pedunculated polyps (> 2-3 cm) are often easily removed with standard snare cautery techniques. The difficulty most commonly encountered is when a large polyp has a particularly long stalk, and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Hemoclipping may be an effective prophylaxis for treatment of large pedunculated polyps, according to a study ...

Alexander A. Levi, M.D. Instructor, Department of Obstetrics, and teaching assistant, Department of Gynecology, Tufts College Medical School; senior visiting ...

(BPT) - Women might be surprised to know that most of them will develop fibroids or polyps as a health issue sometime in their lives. In fact, studies show that 70 percent of white women and 80 ...

T1 colorectal cancer can be mimicked by pseudo-invasion in pedunculated polyps. British guidelines are currently one of the few which recommend diagnostic confirmation of T1 colorectal cancer by a ...

Tamoxifen is a nonsteroidal triphenylethyl compound that is widely used as adjuvant therapy in the treatment of breast cancer. Tamoxifen prolongs overall and disease-free survival, reduces the ...

Postcoital bleeding should be carefully investigated. Persistent postcoital bleeding is more common than intermittent bleeding and is generally associated with a vaginal, cervical, or intrauterine ...

“[This] study suggests that endoscopic clipping is not necessary to prevent post-polypectomy bleeding after [endoscopic mucosal resection] of large serrated polyps,” Seth D. Crockett, MD, MPH, ...