An 85-year-old woman with a positive Cologuard test seeks guidance after her gastroenterologist declined to perform a ...

Doctors explain how colonoscopy compares with FIT, Cologuard, and blood-based colon cancer screening—and why it can catch ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Diagnostic and surgical approaches to treating the disease are evolving — just as rates are spiking. Learn how the surgical ...

"Risk of advanced colorectal lesions 5.2 times as high in group with 5–10 adenomas under 1 cm" ...

A sudden change in stool shape, like pencil-thin stools, can signal potential colon health issues. Persistent narrow stools ...