Current US FDA-cleared stool-based colorectal cancer (CRC) molecular screening tests include fecal immunochemical tests (FIT) for occult blood detection; however, integration with nucleic acid-based ...

A recent study published in JAMA identified colorectal cancer as the leading cause of cancer-related deaths among Americans ...

When David Thau, a lobbyist in Washington, D.C., was 34, he periodically experienced pain in his stomach, irregular bowel movements, blood in his stool and vomiting, and he visited doctors who ...

Mail-based screening programs are helping more Americans stay up to date with colorectal cancer tests—often with a simple box ...

Initiating FIT screening at ages 40-49 reduces CRC mortality by 39% and incidence by 21% compared to starting at age 50. CRC incidence is rising among younger populations, with a 500% increase in ...

A simple blood draw that reads chemical tags on DNA shed by tumors has delivered a strikingly better performance than the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kentucky has long carried one of the highest burdens of colorectal cancer in the nation. For too many families, it is a diagnosis ...

An investigational blood test for early detection of colorectal cancer (CRC) in average-risk adults met the primary endpoints of sensitivity and specificity in the PREEMPT CRC study, the largest study ...

Colorectal cancer (CRC) remains a major global health burden, with emerging evidence implicating gut and oral microbiome dysbiosis in its pathogenesis. This comparative observational study aimed to ...

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A 22-country analysis of modeled GLOBOCAN 2022 data found 15,381 early-onset colorectal cancer cases and 6,965 related deaths ...