After the fasting, the uncomfortable cleanse and a drowsy ride home, it's a relief to have your colonoscopy screening behind ...

Stomach polyps are abnormal tissue growths that form within the stomach. Although they are usually harmless, some stomach polyps have the potential to become cancerous. Researchers and doctors do not ...

You may need to remove nasal polyps if they’re large enough to interfere with your quality of life. Surgery, called nasal polypectomy, is the standard procedure used. Nasal polyps refer to small ...

Colon polyps are small growths on the lining of your colon or large intestine, part of your digestive tract. Most aren’t harmful. But some can turn into colon cancer over time. For that reason, your ...

Bladder polyps are small, often cauliflower-like growths that protrude from the lining of the urinary bladder. Typically, polyps are groups of abnormal cells that appear along mucous membranes in the ...

Having trouble breathing through your nose? Subject to frequent olfactory infections? Feel like your sense of smell isn't what it used to be? Nasal polyps—or fleshy, noncancerous, skin tag-type ...

Nasal polyps are soft, painless growths on the lining of your nasal passages or sinuses, often resulting from chronic inflammation. While these benign growths themselves are not harmful, they can lead ...

In an effort to identify a simple, reliable way to track the course of nasal polyps in chronic sinus disease, researchers say they've linked rising levels of immune system white blood cells, called ...

A small, preliminary study found that marathoners were much more likely to have precancerous growths. Experts aren’t sure why. A study of 100 marathon and ultramarathon runners aged 35 to 50 found ...

Polyps are bits of extra cells that can grow in many of your tissues. Gastric polyps, or stomach polyps, are growths that develop in the lining of your stomach. In many cases, these polyps cause no ...