While bowel cancer – or colorectal cancer – has traditionally been more common in people over the age of 50, cases in the ...

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

Its research also concludes that African Americans have the highest rates of colorectal cancer when compared to any ...

Over the past 10-20 years, the genetic defects associated with the principal, high-risk, inherited colon cancer syndromes have been established. Along with these discoveries, genetic testing has ...

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer globally ... The US Preventive Services Task Force recommends that screening with stool DNA-FIT (sDNA-FIT) tests should be conducted once every ...

Australian scientists Dr. Barry Marshall and Dr. Robin Warren discovered Helicobacter pylori, a spiral-shaped bacterium that ...

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 ...

With colon cancer rates rising, advocates hope a newly approved blood test screening can help more people catch it early. “If we find it early, we have a lot more options in treating it,” said ...

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer globally ... The US Preventive Services Task Force recommends that screening with stool DNA-FIT (sDNA-FIT) tests should be conducted once every ...