Credit: Getty Images Our easy-to-read fact sheet provides an overview of screening methods for colorectal cancer. Colorectal cancer (CRC), a collective term for colon and rectal cancers, is the third ...

Noninvasive stool DNA testing can detect two types of colorectal precancers and could play a larger role in colon cancer prevention, say two new studies. Two new studies have opined that noninvasive ...

Performing genetic testing in every patient diagnosed with colon cancer, and not just those considered high-risk, could identify that person's risk of developing another cancer later in life. Germline ...

Chaoyuan Kuang, MD, PhD, Co-Leader, GI Clinical and Translational Research, at Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Othon Wiltz, MD, Colon and Rectal Surgeon, for Montefiore Einstein ...

Marie looked down at her toilet, a paper plate in one hand and a stool testing kit in the other, and wondered, “Do I really have to do this?” When she turned 50, her doctor had recommended checking ...

Fecal occult blood testing, a patient-administered test that is much less expensive than a colonoscopy, is a valid option for early detection of colon cancer, according to a report in the Canadian ...

Each year 52,000 people in the United States die from colorectal (or colon) cancer. It's the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the U.S. For women it is third after breast and uterine ...

Colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the U.S. – which puts the lifetime risk of developing the disease at 4 percent. Karen Huelsman, a licensed and certified genetic counselor ...

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More people younger than 50 are being diagnosed with colon cancer, and UnityPoint Health, the Iowa Cancer Consortium and Gilda’s Club of the Quad Cities are responding by offering at-home colon cancer ...