A local nurse is encouraging others to get screened for colon cancer following her own health scare at a young age.

Two former surgeon generals are pushing back on a CMS proposal aimed at expanding Medicare coverage of some colorectal cancer screening tests, The Center Square reported May 5. The proposed rule would ...

FREMONT, Nebraska ( KMTV) -- Three Rivers Public Health Department in Fremont is offering free colon cancer screening, radon ...

The groups are teaming up for their second annual walk to raise awareness and encourage early screening for colon cancer in ...

A short burst of immunotherapy before surgery is delivering surprisingly powerful results for a specific type of colorectal ...

This important procedure doesn’t have to feel awkward or embarrassing. Here’s what to know to make the test and the ...

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

Doctors have voiced concerns about a proposed rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that would expand ...

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

"This evolving therapeutic landscape fundamentally changes the arithmetic of screening benefit," she wrote. "Colonoscopy clearly prevents some cancers, but when prognosis for clinically detected ...

Colorectal cancer is now the leading cause of cancer death among people younger than 50 in the United States, according to a ...

A mom who dismissed a telltale sign of colon cancer as a side effect of the menopause has shared her experience, as well as ...