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

IN a review of records of patients studied at the Lahey Clinic twenty or more years ago, it is not unusual to see a diagnosis noted "polyp of rectum or colon; patient to have periodic checkups." ...

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 blood test isn't as effective as colonoscopy at detecting and preventing colon cancer, a new review finds. About two and a half times more colon cancer deaths can be expected to occur in ...

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

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

Because the more established colonoscopies and stool tests are more effective at detecting early cancers and precancerous polyps than the emerging blood tests, their long-term impact is projected ...

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