Colorectal cancer continues to be one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide. However, recent advancements in medical screening have brought new hope in the fight against this deadly ...

For years, the gold standard in screening for colon cancer has been a colonoscopy. But a colonoscopy is a medical procedure that involves length prep work, along with being put under, making it ...

A study published in Gut examined whether annual fecal immunochemical testing could reduce reliance on surveillance colonoscopy. Researchers recruited immediate risk patients (between 60- and 72-years ...

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends colorectal cancer screening for all adults starting at age 45. After age 75, the task force recommends talking with your health care team to decide ...

For years, the gold standard in screening for colon cancer has been a colonoscopy. But a colonoscopy is a medical procedure that involves length prep work, along with being put under, making it ...

When David Thau, a lobbyist in Washington, D.C., was 34, he periodically experienced pain in his stomach, irregular bowel movements, blood in his stool and vomiting, and he visited doctors ...

People are three times more likely to undergo at-home colon cancer screening if they're provided a free test, a new study says. About 30% of patients mailed a free stool test kit completed their ...

Colonoscopy may be inconvenient and require planning, but the consequence and therapy for cancer is far more burdensome.

Patients with a positive fecal occult blood test (FOBT) who did not undergo follow-up colonoscopy had a fourfold increased incidence of colorectal cancer, a Swedish population-based cohort study ...

New blood-based screening tests for colorectal cancer (CRC) offered fewer benefits at higher cost versus other screening options, a cost-effectiveness modeling study suggested. In a comparison against ...