Health insurance companies send all kinds of things in the mail: brochures about benefits, branded items such as coasters and duffel bags, and reminders to get certain health tests done. Some have ...

Diagnoses in people younger than 55 have nearly doubled since 1995.

Automatically mailing a stool test kit to people's homes might be the best way to boost colon cancer screening among younger adults, a new study says. More 45- to 49-year-olds went ahead with cancer ...

October 9, 2008 — Stool DNA testing is a new approach to screening for colorectal cancer, but it is an evolving technology. A study has found that the first-generation stool DNA test (SDT-1) is not ...

We compared a noninvasive, multitarget stool DNA test with a fecal immunochemical test (FIT) in persons at average risk for colorectal cancer. The DNA test includes quantitative molecular assays for ...

England’s National Health Service’s faecal immunochemical test (FIT) has reduced referrals for suspected bowel cancer by ...

Recently, Minnesotans have been receiving unsolicited, unrequested at-home colon cancer screening kits from health insurers, without a doctor's input. If you received one in the mail, you might ...

Dr. Bethany Malone has treated a lot of colorectal cancer patients. The youngest, not counting those with genetic conditions, was 19 years old.

Cologuard is a colon cancer screening test you can do at home. It’s a noninvasive, stool-based test that comes in a kit. You use the kit to collect a stool sample. Then you send the sample to a lab ...

Colon cancer can be found in a few ways, including a digital rectal exam and a fecal occult blood test. There is also the option of using devices in a sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy. There is also a ...

An investigational multitarget stool DNA test for screening colorectal cancer detects significantly more cancers than the currently available fecal immunochemical test (FIT), researchers report. But ...