Early research also indicates there could be some differences in symptoms between men and women.

It took three years, four emergency-room visits and multiple misdiagnoses before Reuben Cheatem was diagnosed with stage III ...

FOBT-positive patients who skipped colonoscopy had fourfold higher cancer incidence ...

Clinicians can do more to drive colorectal cancer awareness ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More then 100,000 people will be diagnosed with colon cancer for the first time this year. Common symptoms of colon cancer include ...

A Tulsa surgeon outlines symptoms, risk factors, and why early screening matters during Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.

Mike Francisco was an athletic 35-year-old Phoenix medical professional when he was diagnosed with late-stage colon cancer. His story is not unusual.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The survey results reveal strong enthusiasm for blood-based screening options among adults aged 45 and older, the group ...