A single screening colonoscopy reduced colorectal cancer incidence by roughly 30% over 13 years — a meaningful improvement over earlier findings — but failed to produce a statistically significant ...

Updated data from the NordICC trial are consistent with previous results, while subgroup analyses provide new insights.

Matthew Ng, MD, with The George Washington University Hospital and Cedar Hill Regional Medical Center discusses colorectal ...

Colorectal cancer diagnoses are rising sharply in younger adults, according to the American Cancer Society.

SHREVEPORT, La. -- No one likes to get a colonoscopy, but it's an important tool in the fight against colon cancer. There is an easier way: Cologuard is a non-invasive, effective, and affordable ...

For years, the gold standard in screening for colon cancer has been a colonoscopy. But a colonoscopy is a medical procedure that involves length prep work, along with being put under, making it ...

People of average risk for colon cancer should get a screening or colonoscopy earlier than previously advised.

Colon cancer is now the leading cause of cancer death in people under the age of 50, according to the American Cancer Society ...

Dear Savvy Senior: Are there any easier alternatives to a colonoscopy to screen for colon cancer? I just turned 60 and my wife keeps nagging me to get tested, but I hate the idea of drinking that ...

When David Lyon saw blood in his stool, he didn't think much of it. He was a fit 26-year-old who worked in a sheet metal shop. The spots were inconsistent, and he thought he might have just sustained ...

If you’re in your 20s, 30s or early 40s, you might think you’re too young to get colon cancer. Photographer and cancer survivor Lindsey Jayn is one of those head-scratching cases. She was diagnosed ...