They’re non-invasive with none of the dreaded prep. But are recently approved home tests for colon cancer as effective as ...

The kit, a fecal immunochemical test (FIT), uses antibodies to detect blood in stool. This blood is an early warning sign of colon cancer, and those who test positive are urged to undergo a ...

All 50-74-year-olds in England will now receive a home-testing kit for bowel cancer every two years. NHS England has been ...

but it does not see it replacing colonoscopy for a definitive diagnosis. The test is the first epigenetic diagnostic to be sold as a kit to laboratories; other epigenetic-based tests on the market ...

Dennis didn’t follow through with scheduling his colonoscopy. And for several years after that, he also didn’t complete the paperwork required to receive an at-home stool-based screening test ...