When you have your blood drawn in a routine doctor’s visit, some of the markers in your blood that get tested could hold unexpected clues to how likely you are to develop colorectal cancer at a young ...

Colorectal cancer is now the leading cause of cancer-related death among adults under 50 in the United States, and diagnoses in younger adults continue to increase at an alarming rate. In fact, it has ...

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

A pattern-based p53 immunohistochemistry test identified patients with colorectal liver metastases at nearly four times the ...

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

The American Cancer Society is now adding blood tests to its guidelines for colorectal cancer screening. But that doesn't mean you should skip your colonoscopy. In the updated guidelines, released May ...

The American Cancer Society is adding some new testing options to its screening guidelines for colorectal cancers – and for the first time, that includes a blood test.Colonoscopies are still ...

FIVE ON YOUR HEALTH DETECTING COLON CANCER WITHOUT A COLONOSCOPY. THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY JUST UPDATED ITS SCREENING GUIDELINES TO INCLUDE TWO NEW OPTIONS. ONE IS A BLOOD TEST, AND THE OTHER CAN ...

People who skip colorectal cancer screening because colonoscopy or stool testing seems too burdensome now have a blood test option from Guardant Health among recommendations by the American Cancer ...

Current US FDA-cleared stool-based colorectal cancer (CRC) molecular screening tests include fecal immunochemical tests (FIT) for occult blood detection; however, integration with nucleic acid-based ...

More and more people are asking, "If I take a gut microbiome test, will it tell me if I have colorectal cancer?" While the relationship between gut bacteria and colon diseases is being studied, a gut ...