There are more options than ever for colon-cancer screening. But this writer found out firsthand why the office visit is still best.

New ACS guidelines add blood-based and updated at-home tests to expand colorectal cancer screening participation. Colonoscopy remains the most comprehensive screening option and the only test that can ...

For the new blood tests, recommended to be conducted every three years, the cases ranged from 4,310 to 4,365, and deaths ranged from 1,604 to 1,679—about two and a half times as many deaths as in the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “Changes to the recommendations with this most recent manuscript include priority quality indicators,” Munroe, ...

Tens of millions of middle-aged and older Americans haven’t gotten their recommended checks for early signs of potential colon cancer, either through the “gold standard” of colonoscopy or a ...

Twenty-four years ago, Frank and Linda vowed to stay together in sickness and in health. They're keeping that promise by staying ahead of colon cancer. My father had colon cancer. I saw what he had to ...

The new Sassun-Mayo staging system, which integrates tumor deposit and lymph node counts, improves prognostic accuracy for patients with colon cancer compared with the standard American Joint ...