Doctors use laboratory tests, imaging studies, and endoscopic procedures to help diagnose short bowel syndrome, which affects nutrient absorption in the small intestine. Short bowel syndrome (SBS) ...

Several at-home options for colon cancer screening are available. If any of these tests are positive, a doctor will recommend a colonoscopy for further analysis. The U.S. Preventive Services Task ...

People receiving blood-based colorectal screening tests showed disappointingly low rates of receiving follow-up colonoscopies that are essential when tests are abnormal, with follow-up rates as low as ...

Cologuard is a colon cancer screening test you can do at home. It’s a noninvasive, stool-based test that comes in a kit. You use the kit to collect a stool sample. Then you send the sample to a lab ...

There is a saying about fitness that runs along the lines of "the best type of exercise is the one that you will do." Updated colorectal cancer screening guidelines, released by the American Cancer ...

With colorectal cancer a growing concern among younger people, the American Cancer Society has endorsed two new types of stool tests to encourage people to get screened, while also recommending a ...

New guidance contains appropriate caution but an insufficient implementation framework ...

A Lancashire man says a simple NHS bowel cancer test kit "saved my life" after it detected the disease before he had any ...

When Erica Barnell was an MD/PhD student at Washington University in St. Louis, she met a woman who had stage four colorectal cancer (CRC). The woman was only 52 years old—more than a decade younger ...