50 million Americans due for colon cancer screening avoid it because they consider traditional tests so unpleasant. But now it can be as simple as a blood test. If you’re overdue for your colon cancer ...

A groundbreaking blood test for colorectal cancer screening has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), offering the potential to revolutionize early detection for one of ...

Colon cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer and third leading cause of cancer deaths. It is also one of the most preventable types of cancer when it is detected early. Colon cancer screening ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month. It’s a reminder about how important it is to get checked for what’s now the second-leading cause of cancer deaths in the U.S. Like most ...

Not including skin cancers, colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in the United States. Unfortunately, the rates of colorectal cancer are rising dramatically in younger adults, which has ...

Fort Drum Regional Health Planning Organization is nearing the successful completion of an 18-month grant from Exact Sciences ...

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 ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Doctors are reminding people to get screened for colon cancer. Colon cancer is becoming more common in younger people. “We don’t know specifically why that is happening, ...

Q: I know that colonoscopies are more thorough than the at-home DNA stool test for colon cancer. But how much better? I have such a terrible time with anesthesia and gas. Both make me nauseated for ...

(a) “You don’t have to worry about that. Colon cancer is mainly a man’s disease.” (b) “Yes, everyone should have a colonoscopy every year to check for colon cancer.” (c) “I’ll do a rectal exam today, ...

The Good Samaritan Hospital of Kearney, Neb. has won the Prevent Cancer Foundation’s Screening Saves Lives Challenge for 2012, according to a news release. The challenge is a national competition for ...