When I finally spoke to a doctor, he told me I was too young for it to be anything serious,” said Sydney Stoner ...

Colorectal cancer is a serious but preventable disease if detected early. Advances in diagnostics, such as biomarker analysis ...

Sometimes, they just put it off, said Dr. Antoine Pham, an internal medicine doctor with Thrive Medical. He has started ...

“It is important for patients with abnormal stool test results to get a colonoscopy as soon as possible to prevent an ...

Fasting has shown its potential to reduce colorectal cancer risk by triggering cellular changes that may slow tumor growth, ...

The gold standard for colorectal cancer screening is a colonoscopy. That’s because ... imaging with CT or MRI scans is performed to stage it. Staging cancer determines how advanced it is and ...

Dr. Harry Wasvary is Joshi’s doctor and the Chief of Colorectal Surgery at Corewell Health William Beaumont University ...

It doesn’t take a Hallmark card or a designated awareness month to remind us how critical it is to talk about colorectal ...

At 38, William Lindley was a father of three kids and passionate about his job in law enforcement. But, after months of ...

Also, screening can catch colorectal cancer in its early stages, when treatment is most ... Screening options include colonoscopy, stool-based home tests such as Cologuard and other methods.

It recommends colonoscopy as the gold standard. The guidance for first and follow-up colonoscopies is: Most people do not have symptoms until colon cancer has advanced to later stages when the ...