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A digital rectal exam checks for abnormalities in the rectum and pelvic area. The exam can help detect prostate cancer, but it's not recommended for routine screening. A DRE takes only a minute or two ...

A new outpatient high-resolution anoscopy (HRA) service has been set up at Oxford's Churchill hospital. The service, designed to aid early detection and management of pre-cancerous anal conditions, ...

When students in Catherine Hartmann’s honors seminar at the University of Wyoming took their final exams this month, they encountered a testing method as old as the ancient philosophers whose ideas ...