Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kentucky has long carried one of the highest burdens of colorectal cancer in the nation. For too many families, it is a diagnosis ...

Doctors say there are less invasive screening options for colon cancer, but each comes with tradeoffs.

Automatically mailing a stool test kit to people's homes might be the best way to boost colon cancer screening among younger adults, a new study says. More 45- to 49-year-olds went ahead with cancer ...

FOBT-positive patients who skipped colonoscopy had fourfold higher cancer incidence ...

Health insurance companies send all kinds of things in the mail: brochures about benefits, branded items such as coasters and duffel bags, and reminders to get certain health tests done. Some have ...

ACA requires firms to cover colonoscopies for over-45s but young people face hurdles to receive appropriate tests ...

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, an opportunity to raise awareness of what people can do to avoid dying from ...

Olympic gold medalist Abby Wambach had a colonoscopy in her 30s after a family history of colon cancer. It found polyps that ...

With colon cancer increasing in younger adults, a local survivor shares her stage 3 diagnosis, and medical professionals stress why early screening and paying attention to symptoms matter more than ...

I paused, and then I clicked "cancel appointment." The blood in my stool, the most common sign of colon cancer in young people, was going away. I chalked up my concerns to my job: I was interviewing ...

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, and Nevada has a serious problem we cannot ignore. In our state, 34% of residents are not up to date with their colorectal cancer screenings, ranking Nevada ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cologuard cancer screening tests can be useful for certain people, but you should talk to a doctor first. (Provided by Exact ...