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

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

Nervous about getting a colonoscopy? A gastroenterologist answers six common questions about prep, the procedure, and what to expect.

Time for a rear-ality check. Colorectal cancer rates have been rising among adults younger than 50 since the 1990s, a troubling trend that has perplexed scientists. Because of the increase in cases, ...

Michal F Kaminski and colleagues report that colonoscopy screening reduced colorectal cancer incidence, but not mortality, during a 13-year follow-up.1 The response from the public health field will ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Physician who writes about the rising rates of cancer in young adults. Colon cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related deaths.

We know that a colonoscopy is the most effective tool for the early detection and prevention of colon cancer. But anyone who has ever had a colonoscopy also knows that it's not necessarily something ...

Adults 45 and older at average risk can now get screened for colorectal cancer with a simple blood test.

The SimpleScreen CRC blood test, developed by Freenome, will be sold exclusively by Abbott alongside its Cologuard Plus home ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jeff Smith was dumbfounded when he received a colon cancer screening kit in the mail. The 68-year-old Minnesota man hadn't asked ...

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 ...