A team of 60 gastroenterology experts recommended gastroenterologists move on from a “one-size-fits-all” approach to colorectal cancer screening, in a new preprint study published in Clinical ...

A patient who had repeatedly refused routine screening for colorectal cancer (CRC), despite having lost his 80-year-old father to the disease, was again advised to undergo a colonoscopy at age 56. He ...

Stool-based DNA testing can help bridge CRC screening gaps between rural and urban populations by providing timely follow-up. The study found no significant difference in follow-up times for ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Colonoscopy is most sensitive for CRC, but offering patients choices like FIT can improve screening rates. New ...

Fecal Immunochemical Testing (FIT) is usually preferred by people for screening of colorectal cancer. But a higher number of lesions can be detected more clearly using colonoscopy. Though fecal ...

A new study from Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente found that patients who receive a positive fecal test often delay undergoing colonoscopy – the recommended procedure following a positive ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Colon cancer is one of the most common cancers diagnosed in both men and women, but many people who should get tested aren't. New research shows home testing is a good option and ...

A new risk assessment scoring system has been developed that could help physicians judge which patients can forgo invasive colonoscopy testing for cancer screening and which should receive the test.

Very few people look forward to their first colonoscopy once they reach 45 years old, the age at which colon cancer screening should begin for people at average risk. That is one of the reasons ...

In this era of skyrocketing health-care costs, how many serial stool guaiac tests would a patient have to have in order to obtain results equivalent to screening colonoscopy for colorectal cancer?

New blood-based screening tests for colorectal cancer (CRC) offered fewer benefits at higher cost versus other screening options, a cost-effectiveness modeling study suggested. In a comparison against ...

Artificial intelligence is helping doctors distinguish in real time whether polyps, a telltale sign of colorectal cancer, are life-threatening or safe to be left alone, reducing the need for costly ...