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

However experts say many of those deaths could be prevented. Colorectal cancer is one of the cancers for which effective screening exists. For one thing, colorectal cancer nearly always develops ...

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, ...

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

In a separate study published in March by the same journal, an updated version of the Cologuard stool test, which also looks ...

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 ...

As it works to diversify its methods for catching early cases of colorectal cancer, Exact Sciences has put forward clinical ...

Cologuard is a non-invasive test for colon cancer that you can perform in the comfort of your own home. It checks for evidence of cancer in a small sample of stool (poop) that you mail to a lab.

The initial results suggest that Exact’s test could be an alternative to others on the market, but the findings come from a ...

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

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

New Study Shows at-Home Colon Cancer Screening Test Reduces Risk of Colorectal Cancer Death, as Effective as Screening Colonoscopy July 25, 2024 — A noninvasive colorectal cancer screening test ...