Many people are simply unaware of the existence of the FIT test or underestimate its importance in colorectal cancer ...

For adults with average cancer risk, a blood test could provide an option for colon cancer screening instead of a colonoscopy.

A rival CEO's confrontational social media post underscored the high stakes in the race to develop and deploy cancer ...

Over the past three decades, rates of colon cancer among young people have been steadily rising even as diagnoses among older ...

Created by Guardant Health, the blood test, known as Shield, was able to detect 83% of colorectal cancers in studies but only 13% of dangerous polyps. Colonoscopies find approximately 95% of these ...

Commonly used fecal immunochemical tests vary in their performance, which has implications for the benefits and ...

About 19,550 of those diagnoses were in people younger than 50 years old, and for men under 50 in particular, colorectal cancer is now the leading cause of cancer death. Screening for colon cancer, ...

A snowman picking his nose made people who typically avoid informataion about colorectal cancer more likely to take a quiz ...

Investors have poured billions of dollars into the "liquid biopsy" space for the early detection and tracking of cancer. Now ...

"Stool-based test offers a promising solution to reduce the burden of a colonoscopy," experts emphasized on September 21st, ...

Colon polyps can become colorectal cancer if they are not removed and they continue to grow. This is why screening for colon ...

Exact’s test could compete with Guardant Health’s Shield blood test, which received approval from the Food and Drug Administration in July.