I put these symptoms off for months before finally going to get a colonoscopy,” Joe Faratzis recently admitted. “Don’t risk ...

Colon cancer screening is only effective if you complete the test. With 53,000 Americans expected to die from colon cancer in ...

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Five years after being diagnosed with stage 4 colorectal cancer at the age of 28, Joe Faratzis is reflecting on the six red ...

The usual thing is at 50 years old, because colon cancer, in the general population ... and then some of the screening things say every 10 years, I think they are going to have a new panel ...

When CRC is detected early, it can be easily treated. The American Cancer Society and other organizations have developed screening guidelines for people at average and high risk for colorectal cancer.

“I would not eat Taco Bell before a long car ride,” he said. Other recommendations include avoiding unnecessary antibiotics ...

an organization which provides healthcare screening guidelines and recommendations, to change its recommendation for individuals to begin undergoing colon cancer screening at the age of 45 ...

As a result, the guidelines for colorectal cancer screening have changed. Dr. Karyn Goodman is a radiation oncologist ...

Improvements in cancer prevention and screening have averted more deaths than treatment advances over the past 45 years.

Hello, and thank you for joining us today for what promises to be a lively discussion about screening for colon cancer. My name is Perry Wilson. I am an associate professor of medicine at the Yale ...

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