Brooks Bell and Sarah Beran were diagnosed with colon cancer in their 30s. Their doctors initially thought they hemorrhoids ...

Medicare now covers both DNA stool testing and CT colonography, so researchers decided to perform a head-to-head comparison ...

The upward trend of colon cancer cases in the U.S. is astronomically high—so much so that in 2021, the U.S. Preventive ...

There’s a worrying trend in the cancer world with young adults getting cancer at higher rates, and scientists don’t know why.

Early signs of colon cancer ... both had late-stage cancer and rectal bleeding as a symptom. It makes the symptom all the more important to flag: sometimes, blood in the stool won't show up ...

“We’re perfectly fine with seeing pictures ... colorectal cancer diagnosis has been dropping since the mid-1980s, mostly because more people are getting screening tests like colonoscopies and ...

A colonoscopy is an exam that lets your physician see your entire colon. Before the test, your health care team will give you instructions for how to clear your colon of any stool. This process ...

Computed tomography (CT) colonography — sometimes called a virtual colonoscopy — uses X-rays to produce pictures of the colon ... and are at average risk for colorectal cancer. These tests — which ...

Fatigue and anemia can also be warning signs. There are three ways to screen for colon cancer. The stool-based tests you send away. There’s a new blood-based test available, but the standard ...

18 An earlier colon cancer study involved a trained Labrador Retriever analyzing the breath and stool samples of healthy controls and CRC patients enrolled in a clinical trial. After smelling ...

Tests range from stool tests to colonoscopies. This year, American Cancer Society estimates predict 107,320 people will be diagnosed with colon cancer, and 46,950 will be diagnosed with rectal cancer.