Regular colon cancer screenings can help find and treat the disease early. There are multiple alternatives to colonoscopy, including stool tests and sigmoidoscopy. Stool tests for colon cancer can be ...
If you’re at the age where colorectal screening is recommended to prevent colon cancer (between 45 and 75), you might see the new, landmark study published in the New England Journal of Medicine as ...
For decades, gastroenterologists put colonoscopies on a pedestal. If everyone would get the screening just once a decade, clinicians believed it could practically make colorectal cancer “extinct,” ...