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

In a nationwide cohort of more than 2.5 million average-risk adults, researchers found that completing mt-sDNA screening was associated with an approximately 54% lower adjusted incidence rate of ...

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

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 ...

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.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kentucky has long carried one of the highest burdens of colorectal cancer in the nation. For too many families, it is a diagnosis ...

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 ...

50 million Americans due for colon cancer screening avoid it because they consider traditional tests so unpleasant. But now it can be as simple as a blood test. If you’re overdue for your colon cancer ...

"Dawson's Creek" star James Van Der Beek said in Wednesday’s partnership announcement that his cancer was found at stage 3, when he was 46 years old and “in great physical shape.” (Guardant Health) ...

A nationwide cohort study of over 2.5 million US adults found that returning mailed multitarget stool DNA screening kits was ...

A Vancouver man diagnosed with colon cancer at 35 built his own screening test — and his story shows why younger Canadians ...