The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends colorectal cancer screening for all adults starting at age 45. After age 75, the task force recommends talking with your health care team to decide ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . People in rural areas experience a variety of barriers to CRC screening. A mailed fecal immunochemical test ...

Other colon cancer screening tests currently under development are at-home blood sample tests. Their low level of accuracy means they are currently not recommended for use in place of FOBT, FIT, or mt ...

People invited to undergo FIT were more likely to participate in colorectal cancer screening compared with those invited to undergo colonoscopy. FIT was noninferior to colonoscopy for colorectal ...

Colorectal cancer incidence and mortality have increased among younger adults in recent years, with the most significant increase seen in those ages 40 to 49. Starting FIT screening early was tied to ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — This Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, The Community Health Center of Buffalo is getting the word out about getting screened for colon cancer. It's something that can show no symptoms ...

A comprehensive colorectal cancer screening initiative in a large health system doubled colon cancer screening rates, decreased cancer incidence by a third, halved deaths and nearly eradicated racial ...

Close to 50,000 Americans will die from colorectal cancer (CRC) in 2016, making it the second-leading cause of cancer-related death in this country (behind only lung cancer).1 What makes the statistic ...

When Erica Barnell was an MD/PhD student at Washington University in St. Louis, she met a woman who had stage four colorectal cancer (CRC). The woman was only 52 years old—more than a decade younger ...