A new FDA-approved blood test designed to detect colon cancer earlier is now available in North Texas. An estimated 154,270 ...

If you are at high risk for colon cancer, you may need to start screenings before age 45 or have them more often. The fecal immunochemical test (FIT) and guaiac-based fecal occult blood test (gFOBT) ...

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 ...

Oakland-based Kaiser Permanente Northern California has more than doubled its colorectal cancer screening rates over the past two decades — from 37.4% in 2000 to 79.8% in 2019 — through a proactive ...

DNA screening could reduce colon cancer deaths in Canada if widely adopted. High participation is key to maximizing health ...

A comprehensive colorectal cancer screening initiative in a large health system doubled colon cancer screening rates, ...

A 20-year initiative that offered flexible options for colorectal cancer screening at a major integrated health system ...

They evaluated outcomes of a systematic outreach program that started in 2007, reminding patients who were overdue for colon cancer screening and sending them convenient at-home stool tests.