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 ...

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Credit: Getty Images Our easy-to-read fact sheet provides an overview of screening methods for colorectal cancer. Colorectal cancer (CRC), a collective term for colon and rectal cancers, is the third ...

The number of annual colonoscopies performed in the U.S. is projected to decline over the next decade as use of noninvasive ...

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

For more than two decades, colonoscopy has been promoted as the gold standard for colorectal cancer screening. Policy makers ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Physician who writes about the rising rates of cancer in young adults. Colon cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related deaths.

ONE colonoscopy significantly reduced colorectal cancer incidence but not mortality over 13 years, in updated findings from ...

Editor’s Note: This article by Paul Cadorette, director of education for mdStrategies, originally appeared in The Coding Advocate, mdStrategies free monthly newsletter. Sign-up to receive this ...

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

Doctors warn more young adults are being diagnosed with colorectal cancer ...