Automated text messages significantly improve colorectal cancer screening uptake compared to phone calls, offering a scalable ...

This randomized trial showed that a personalized message about colorectal cancer risk to patients and providers had no effect on screening uptake. However, stool testing rates were higher with the ...

Colorectal cancer was considered a disease that mainly affected older adults; now doctors are diagnosing more people in their ...

SAN DIEGO — In the ever-expanding options for colorectal cancer (CRC) screening, blood tests using precision medicine are becoming more advanced and convenient than ever; however, caveats abound, and ...

A Kaiser Permanente gastroenterologist is urging people to get screened earlier for colorectal cancer, as doctors continue to see a troubling rise in diagnoses among younger patients. “If you look at ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Colon cancer is the third leading cause of cancer‑related deaths in men and the fourth leading cause in women, according to the American Cancer Society. When combined, it becomes the ...

Anne Jones, who is 51, is used to solving any problem that comes her way. She grew up on a farm in southeast Nebraska, where the humid summers and long, harsh winters made farming difficult. Jones was ...

For patients with a positive fecal occult blood test in a cohort study, those who did not undergo a follow-up colonoscopy had an increased incidence of colorectal cancer. Those who underwent ...

The Canadian Cancer Society (CCS) has called for a decrease in the age of colorectal cancer screening from the current 50 years to 45 years. The appeal follows accumulating evidence that younger ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AUSTIN (KXAN) — Colon cancer is the third leading cause of cancer‑related deaths in men and the fourth leading cause in women, ...