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

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 ...

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 ...

Among 100,000 people who receive a colonoscopy every 10 years, 1,543 would develop colorectal cancer and 672 would die from the disease, they determined. For stool-based tests every one to three years ...

According to the American Cancer Society, colorectal cancer is the second deadliest cancer overall, third deadliest among men ...

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 ...

WovenX Health, a Chicago-based specialty care platform, today announced a GI procedure partner network spanning all 50 states and Washington, D.C., supporting the launch of a national colorectal ...

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

NEW YORK, Oct. 28 (UPI) --New blood tests screen for colorectal cancer in a much less invasive way than colonoscopy, but deaths will increase if many people choose this alternative, a new study ...

Colorectal cancer is rising in people under 50 and is the second leading cause of cancer death, but when caught early, it is highly curable. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends that ...

Researchers in Japan have developed a non-invasive stool-based DNA test that identifies microbial signatures linked to ...

The colonoscopy is over.Up to this point, I have written about:* Dietary restrictions before the test* The battle with ...