A study by the Comprehensive Cancer Center Vienna of MedUni Vienna and Vienna General Hospital has taken a closer look at the effectiveness of common examination methods for the early detection of ...

Digital rectal examination (DRE) is neither helpful nor useful as a solitary prostate cancer screening tool in middle-aged men, say investigators reporting the PROBASE study. The study compared ...

I am a 77-year-old male and have not had a rectal exam for three years. My newest physician says it is not necessary, in light of my PSA exams over the past six years. (The result of the last one in ...

The left lateral decubitus position with the patient's knees pulled up is usually the most comfortable and modesty-preserving positioning for an elderly person. Sometimes previous spinal injury limits ...

During what seemed like an ordinary rectal check-up, doctors were taken by surprise when a man's racing heart rate, clocked ...

Several risk factors put patients with colorectal cancer at increased risk of anastomotic leakage after elective surgery. Anastomotic leakage (AL) was associated with advanced age, presence of ...