Middle-aged folks facing a colon cancer screening now have a blood test they can choose over a standard colonoscopy.H ...

The plan to announce the diagnosis "had to be altered early this morning when I was informed that a tabloid was going to run with the news,” he wrote on Instagram on Sunday.

Traditional colonoscopies are better at catching early colon cancer than newly available blood tests, a new study ...

E.L., from Minneapolis Dear E.L.: You’re doing everything right to try to keep from getting colon cancer, but you’re still at ...

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

It typically starts as polyps in the lining of the colon or rectum ... become cancerous so are considered a precancerous condition. There are three types of adenomatous polyps: tubular, villous ...

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 ...