Mail-based screening programs are helping more Americans stay up to date with colorectal cancer tests—often with a simple box ...

The starting age dropped, a blood test joined the list, and there's now an age doctors say to quit.

In a nationwide cohort of more than 2.5 million average-risk adults, researchers found that completing mt-sDNA screening was associated with an approximately 54% lower adjusted incidence rate of ...

We thank João Martins and Aneel Bhangu, Hermann Brenner and colleagues, and Uri Ladabaum and colleagues for their interesting comments on our report from the NordICC trial.1 We agree with Martins and ...

A recent study published in JAMA identified colorectal cancer as the leading cause of cancer-related deaths among Americans ...

A nationwide cohort study of over 2.5 million US adults found that returning mailed multitarget stool DNA screening kits was ...

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 who ...

50 million Americans due for colon cancer screening avoid it because they consider traditional tests so unpleasant. But now it can be as simple as a blood test. If you’re overdue for your colon cancer ...

When Erica Barnell was an MD/PhD student at Washington University in St. Louis, she met a woman who had stage four colorectal cancer (CRC). The woman was only 52 years old—more than a decade younger ...

The American Cancer Society now recommends stool-based tests and a blood test as alternatives to colonoscopy for colorectal cancer screening. Colonoscopy remains the gold standard for screening ...

New colorectal cancer screening recommendations, released today by the American Cancer Society, may help millions more Americans test for the disease. The updated guidelines will now allow for a blood ...

Colon cancer is the third-leading cause of cancer death among both Hispanic men and women, underscoring the urgent need for early screening 1 MADISON, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Exact Sciences, a leading ...