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

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 ...

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 ...

The American Cancer Society recently recommended that two blood tests can be an option for people who won't get a colonoscopy or do a stool test. No one looks forward to a colonoscopy, but for the ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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