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 ...

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.

They told me it was effective, and I knew mailing a Cologuard box back would be pretty dang easy.” Cologuard — a simple way to screen Built on the decades of research of Cologuard, the Cologuard Plus® ...

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

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 ...

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 ...