Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month is observed every year during March and aims to promote screening and early detection, raise awareness, and offer support to those battling the disease. Since March ...

According to Cologuard, made by Wisconsin-based Exact Sciences, there are three primary reasons why you may receive a testing kit in the mail without ordering it yourself: your doctor or health care ...

Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month is observed annually in March and aims to promote screening and early detection, raise awareness, and offer support to those battling the disease. As it has done ...

The Cologuard Plus test demonstrated 95% sensitivity for colorectal cancer detection at 94% specificity, making it the most accurate noninvasive CRC screening test reported in studies to date Building ...

The Cologuard Plus test is more accurate than the original Cologuard, and should be easier to mail in for stool analysis. The newest version of Cologuard, an at-home colon cancer screening test, ...

Kentucky has one of the highest rates of colorectal cancer in the US, but early detection leads to a 91% five-year survival rate. Colorectal cancer is projected to become the leading cancer killer for ...

A second blood test shows promise for the detection of colon cancer, according to a new study. The first, called Shield, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in July for people 45 and ...

If you’re over 50 years old, there’s a good chance you’ve had a colonoscopy. But you’re just as likely not to have had one, even though physicians have begun to recommend people have one after they ...

A blood test that accurately detects colon cancer in middle-aged and older people and also rules it out when it is not present can help to increase the rate of screening for the disease in the U.S.

An ongoing theme among medical marketing is the increasingly common embrace of Spanish-language marketing by health brands. Considering there are more than 41 million Spanish speakers in the U.S., ...

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 ...