A gut expert has drawn attention to a surprisingly common supermarket staple with the potential to slash your risk of colon ...

Cell ‘atlases’ offer unprecedented view of placenta, intestines and kidneys Other studies used 3D mapping to study samples of ...

Stanford researchers found that new blood tests for colorectal cancer screening are not as effective as colonoscopies or ...

It allows doctors to immediately remove worrisome growths, including precancerous polyps, preventing some colon cancers from ever developing. Some people also might like the fact that colonoscopy ...

However, the test only was able to detect precancerous colon polyps in about 13% of people. Colonoscopy is not an easy procedure. People must take powerful laxatives ahead of time to completely ...

It typically starts as polyps in the lining of the colon or rectum. Polyps are common as people age, and most are not cancer, ...

New blood tests screen for colorectal cancer in a much less invasive way than colonoscopy, but deaths will increase if many ...

Let’s start with the cheapest, the yearly FIT, or fecal immunochemical test, which looks for fecal blood that might be caused ...