A blood-based colorectal cancer (CRC) screening test, SimpleScreen™, has shown a significant leap in performance, ...

A novel, blood-based test developed using fragmentomic features of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) detects colorectal cancer (CRC) with a 90.4% sensitivity and shows consistent performance across stages and ...

On 'Live with Kelly and Mark,' the morning show host admitted that he should have already gotten screened for colon cancer Manoli Figetakis/Getty Mark Consuelos shared that he underwent a colonoscopy, ...

Jessica Biesiekierski receives funding from NHMRC, Rome Foundation, Yakult and Australian Eggs. She is affiliated with the Nutrition Society of Australia and the Australiasian Neurogastroenterology & ...

When Erica Barnell was an MD/PhD student at Washington University in St. Louis, she met a woman who had stage four colorectal cancer (CRC). The woman was only 52 years old—more than a decade younger ...

What if you could get checked for colon cancer with only a routine blood draw? A new blood test in Michigan is making the process much easier. No bowel prep, no sedation and no awkward stool kit to ...

Instead of a colonoscopy, a healthcare professional will typically order the following tests to check for signs of liver damage: Although a colonoscopy does not check for liver damage, it can help ...

If you received a colonoscopy reminder in the mail when you turned 50, you’re not alone. For decades, age 50 was the magic number to begin colorectal cancer screening in the U.S. But with rising ...

Although adverse event rates within 30 days after surveillance colonoscopy increase with age, peaking among patients aged 76-85 years, they remain infrequent, occurring in < 1% of procedures.

“When I finally spoke to a doctor, he told me I was too young for it to be anything serious,” said Sydney Stoner Sydney Stoner was suffering from severe symptoms but was dismissed by doctors because ...