By reducing the level at which traces of blood in a FIT test trigger further investigation – from 120 micrograms of blood per ...
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 ...
Thousands of people will be saved from bowel cancer under changes to the national screening programme, health officials have ...
Some guidelines suggest colorectal cancer (CRC) screening by age 50 for African Americans, but data on screening uptake and yield among this population is limited. Study data published in ...
Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have a new strategy to promoting colorectal cancer screenings. Partnering with a community health clinic, they ...
A mum, 43, with two young children reveals how she had cancer for years before she was diagnosed and wants to encourage ...
Temple Health physicians and providers hand out FIT take home kits for stool-based colorectal cancer screenings. (Courtesy of Temple Health) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and ...
New research published in the American Cancer Society’s CANCER says that improving screening rates for colorectal cancer could be implemented in a cost-effective manner via screening kits sent through ...
Researchers have found a simple, low-cost way to get more adults to complete a fecal immunochemical test (FIT) to screen for colorectal cancer (CRC). In a randomized controlled trial, patients who ...