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

Colon cancer is one of the most preventable cancers when caught early, yet it remains a leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States. Screening is essential because it detects the ...

Colorectal cancer—often called colon cancer—is the fourth most commonly diagnosed cancer and the second deadliest cancer in the United States, according to the Colorectal Cancer Alliance.

For the last several years, health care professionals have started to recommend that both men and women at the age of 45 ...

Colorectal cancer is expected to claim the lives of more than 55,000 Americans in 20262. Despite the fact that early-stage detection carries a survival rate of over 90 percent3, nearly one-third of ...

Prevention and screening are key when it comes to ulcerative colitis and its association with a slightly higher risk for ...

According to the American Cancer Society, colorectal cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer in men and women.

Doctors say there are less invasive screening options for colon cancer, but each comes with tradeoffs.

To reduce the burden of colorectal cancer (CRC), many countries like Germany support a policy of two screening colonoscopies 10 years apart. A new modelling study from Germany indicates that, holding ...

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 ...

According to the American Cancer Society, colon cancer is now the leading cause of cancer death in people under 50. While ...

Olympic gold medalist Abby Wambach had a colonoscopy in her 30s after a family history of colon cancer. It found polyps that ...