A single screening colonoscopy reduced colorectal cancer incidence by roughly 30% over 13 years — a meaningful improvement over earlier findings — but failed to produce a statistically significant ...

Colorectal cancer diagnoses are rising sharply in younger adults, according to the American Cancer Society.

Colon cancer is now the leading cause of cancer death in people under the age of 50, according to the American Cancer Society ...

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - Colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States, but with early detection with a colonoscopy screening, it’s often preventable. Terrence Ates, a ...

People of average risk for colon cancer should get a screening or colonoscopy earlier than previously advised.

Valley woman encourages colon cancer screening after her own diagnosis took 10 years. Doctors kept telling her she was too ...

NEW YORK, Oct. 28 (UPI) --New blood tests screen for colorectal cancer in a much less invasive way than colonoscopy, but deaths will increase if many people choose this alternative, a new study ...

A long-term study has examined how a colonoscopy affects the risk of colon cancer and the mortality risk in the event of a ...

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When David Lyon saw blood in his stool, he didn't think much of it. He was a fit 26-year-old who worked in a sheet metal shop. The spots were inconsistent, and he thought he might have just sustained ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A New Orleans woman says a colonoscopy she scheduled shortly after turning 45 saved her life. Mel Buchanan, a curator at the New Orleans Museum of Art and mother of two, said she ...