Endometrial polyps are common, affecting about 40% of people with uteruses. They are rarely cancerous. Many people with endometrial polyps have no symptoms, but possible symptoms include abnormal ...

Black women tend to get more aggressive uterine cancers than White women. But this is only part of the story, investigators and patients say.

ANSWER: A colonoscopy is both a screening tool for cancer and a way to prevent cancer by removing polyps before they can get advanced enough to turn into cancer (let alone spread). The major risk ...

Uterine cancer is cancer that affects the uterus (womb), the hollow, pear-shaped organ where a fetus grows during pregnancy. The uterus is lined with a tissue called the endometrium.

A 58-year-old woman mistook her womb cancer symptoms for menopause until her stomach became swollen. Diagnosed with advanced-stage womb cancer, she is ...

An additional bleed may also be a sign of uterine fibroids or polyps. Uterine fibroids are non-cancerous growths in the uterus. An overgrowth of the tissue lining inside the uterus causes polyps.

They learned that a low carb, low fiber diet combined with a particular strain of Escherichia coli can lead to an increase in polyps in the colon, which can lead to developing colorectal cancer.

Approximately 30% of colorectal cancers arise via the serrated neoplasia pathway. Serrated polyps are morphologically, histologically and molecularly distinct from conventional adenomas.

Cleveland Clinic researchers have developed and validated a prediction model that estimates the risk of developing colorectal ...