More than one in four adults younger than 50 years of age who undergo colonoscopy have precancerous lesions, researchers have found.
The study included colonoscopies from nearly 230,000 men and women between 30 and 49 years of age enrolled in the GI Quality Improvement Consortium Registry—the largest study to date on precancerous lesions in younger patients—according to Steven Itzkowitz, MD, a professor of medicine, oncological sciences and medical education at the Icahn School of