As scientists question the rise in early colon cancer cases, a new study is offering some potential answers. Colored scanning ...

The otherwise healthy 34-year-old dealt with the issue for more than a year and a half before her life came to a screeching halt with a gut-wrenching diagnosis: stage 4 colorectal cancer.

While the drug may not be strong enough to treat colon cancer on its own, researchers believe it could enhance more ...

Margaret never imagined that her desire to help others would one day become the very act that saved her own life.

They need to get those colonoscopies or take a stool-based test.” After her own experience, Peters feels it’s important to share information about colorectal cancer. Meghan Holohan is a ...

Cologuard is a colon cancer screening test you can do at home. It’s a noninvasive, stool-based test that comes in a kit. You use the kit to collect a stool sample. Then you send the sample to a lab ...

A variety of stool tests ... The gold standard for colorectal cancer screening is the colonoscopy. This procedure involves inserting a thin, flexible tube with a light and camera up the rectum ...

A brief research report compared screening costs per early-detected colorectal cancer (CRC) case among fecal immunochemical ...

Multitarget stool DNA tests — which are becoming more popular in the United States — have shown increased sensitivity over fecal immunochemical tests (FITs) for early colorectal cancer (CRC ...

Investing in patient navigation and clinician incentives ensures colorectal cancer screening completion, improves early detection, reduces disparities, achieves cost savings, and advances population ...

They evaluated outcomes of a systematic outreach program that started in 2007, reminding patients who were overdue for colon cancer screening and sending them convenient at-home stool tests.