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 scree ...
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 ...
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, ...