Credit: Getty Images Our easy-to-read fact sheet provides an overview of screening methods for colorectal cancer. Colorectal cancer (CRC), a collective term for colon and rectal cancers, is the third ...

The Human Genome Project was a 13-year-long, publicly funded project initiated in 1990 to determine the entire DNA sequence of the human genome. While the Project was declared complete in April, 2003 ...

Colon cancer remains the third leading cause of death due to cancer in the US, where it affected more than 145,000 individuals in 2005. Up to 30% of these cases exhibit familial clustering, which ...

Chaoyuan Kuang, MD, PhD, Co-Leader, GI Clinical and Translational Research, at Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Othon Wiltz, MD, Colon and Rectal Surgeon, for Montefiore Einstein ...

Hundreds of residents of Segundo Barrio had the opportunity to educate themselves about colon cancer, the third most commonly diagnosed cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death in men and ...

A health-conscious way to celebrate turning 50 is to drink a gallon of a salty, citrusy-tasting electrolyte solution, then find yourself a couple of rolls of toilet paper and wait for its effect. All ...

Performing genetic testing in every patient diagnosed with colon cancer, and not just those considered high-risk, could identify that person's risk of developing another cancer later in life. Germline ...

More people younger than 50 are being diagnosed with colon cancer, and UnityPoint Health, the Iowa Cancer Consortium and Gilda’s Club of the Quad Cities are responding by offering at-home colon cancer ...

Noninvasive stool DNA testing can detect two types of colorectal precancers and could play a larger role in colon cancer prevention, say two new studies. Two new studies have opined that noninvasive ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Considering growing support for universal mismatch repair (MMR) deficiency testing in CRC, and established ...

According to Cologuard, made by Wisconsin-based Exact Sciences, there are three primary reasons why you may receive a testing ...

Colon cancer remains the third leading cause of death due to cancer in the US, where it affected more than 145,000 individuals in 2005. Up to 30% of these cases exhibit familial clustering, which ...