The model has community clinicians offer take-home fecal immunochemical tests (FIT) for colorectal cancer alongside flu shots in a model dubbed FluFIT. Folks who opt for the screeners can collect ...

With rising rates of colorectal cancers in younger people, UCSF experts tell you that getting screened for cancer may be as ...

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts ("Blue Cross") wants to ensure that members know their options for colorectal cancer ...

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

While the new Shield blood test may motivate more people to get screened for colorectal cancer, it also comes with downsides, ...

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

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 ...

Over the weekend, during the lead-up to Exact Sciences announcing data from a blood-based colon cancer test, Guardant Health co-CEO AmirAli Talasaz challenged Exact’s CEO, Kevin Conroy ...

A snowman picking his nose made people who typically avoid informataion about colorectal cancer more likely to take a quiz ...

While a race-blind algorithm underpredicted and overpredicted CRC risk in Black and White participants, respectively, an ...

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, ...

Totò Schillaci, who passed away today, September 18, had been suffering from colon cancer for some time. His condition had ...