Freenome, an early cancer detection company developing blood-based screening tests, today announced favorable results from its pivotal clinical validation study assessing the performance of assay and ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Physician who writes about the rising rates of cancer in young adults. Colon cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related deaths.

To reduce the burden of colorectal cancer (CRC), many countries like Germany support a policy of two screening colonoscopies 10 years apart. A new modelling study from Germany indicates that, holding ...

Colon cancer used to feel like a worry for later-something to think about decades down the road. Not anymore. An estimated ...

For years, the gold standard in screening for colon cancer has been a colonoscopy. But a colonoscopy is a medical procedure that involves length prep work, along with being put under, making it ...

Tens of millions of middle-aged and older Americans haven't gotten their recommended checks for early signs of potential colon cancer, either through the "gold standard" of colonoscopy or a ...

Delayed reporting of cancer diagnosis by registries probably led to the weaker-than-expected effects of screening colonoscopy in preventing colorectal cancer (CRC) observed in the NordICC trial, a new ...

Stool-based screening for colorectal cancer may be sharper in women than in men, and the reason traces back to sex-specific ...

We know that a colonoscopy is the most effective tool for the early detection and prevention of colon cancer. But anyone who has ever had a colonoscopy also knows that it's not necessarily something ...

People often dismiss rectal bleeding as a minor or embarrassing problem, but doctors say it should never be ignored because ...