It’s good news in the fight against colorectal cancer: A new test can detect the disease with a simple blood draw. But don’t ...

Who needs to worry about colon cancer, and what tests will we be able to use in the future for early cancer detection?

Created by Guardant Health, the blood test, known as Shield, was able to detect 83% of colorectal cancers in studies but only 13% of dangerous polyps. Colonoscopies find approximately 95% of these ...

“Blood from those tumors has a shorter ... He tells HuffPost that colon cancer patients often have very thin stools. “This tends to occur if tumors are present near the end of the colon ...

Cercek points out—younger people can also develop cancer higher up in the colon, which may cause darker blood or no blood at all.) When Mariely Del Valle, 42, first noticed blood in her stool ...

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In sum, having a ghost poop is “a good sign for gut health,” Scarlata says. But you shouldn’t necessarily panic if your stuff ...

With rising rates of colorectal cancers in younger people, UCSF experts tell you that getting screened for cancer may be as ...

The model has community clinicians offer take-home fecal immunochemical tests (FIT) for colorectal cancer alongside flu shots ...

“A ‘ghost poop’ is a term used to describe when one’s stool sinks to the bottom of the toilet and seemingly vanishes without ...

Grady said current options for colorectal cancer screening include a fecal immunochemical test known as FIT, which is a stool-based test that screens for blood in the stool to detect colon cancer.

For adults with average cancer risk, a blood test could provide an option for colon cancer screening instead of a colonoscopy.