Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a leading cause of death among men and women in the USA. Encouragingly, the reported death rates from CRC in the USA have dropped by 46%, and screening has had an important ...

Noninvasive surveillance with multitarget stool DNA testing or fecal immunochemical testing (FIT) could potentially match colonoscopy for reducing long-term ...

No one wants a colonoscopy. But there's no getting around the lifesaving procedure -- the gold standard for colon cancer detection. With the development of the FIT test, or fecal immunochemical test, ...

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends colorectal cancer screening for all adults starting at age 45. After age 75, the task force recommends talking with your health care team to decide ...

Not so very long ago, colonoscopy was the gold standard for colon cancer screening. But times are a-changing. Last month when I went in for a checkup, my primary care doctor handed me a FIT test, a ...

Colorectal cancer continues to be one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide. However, recent advancements in medical screening have brought new hope in the fight against this deadly ...

Increased use of FIT could improve CRC screening rates, especially among vulnerable populations Abstract: http://annals.org/aim/article/doi/10.7326/M18-2390 Editorial ...

Roughly 10% of fecal immunochemical tests (FIT) used for colorectal cancer (CRC) screening by a safety-net health system contained unsatisfactory samples that could not be processed. And fewer than ...

A new at-home stool test screens for colorectal cancer with more than 90 percent accuracy, researchers report. "That kind of result is really unprecedented for a noninvasive stool-based screening," ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Annual fecal immunochemical testing was the most effective and cheapest CRC screening method for underserved ...