Automatically mailing a stool test kit to people's homes might be the best way to boost colon cancer screening among younger ...

You typically perform the FIT in your bathroom after a bowel movement by collecting some stool out of the toilet bowl with a brush. After the kit is sent to the lab, it will be checked for hidden ...

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 colon cancer patients.

Using just a stool sample, doctors may now be able to detect colon and many other cancers of the digestive tract including stomach, pancreatic, bile duct and esophageal cancer, U.S. researchers ...

An at-home stool test for colon cancer detected no abnormalities. What are known as fecal immunochemical tests, or FIT, are about 80% accurate, according to the University of Colorado Cancer Center.

Marisa Peters, a 43-year-old mother-of-three and advocacy worker from California, has revealed the 'unglamorous' stage three colon cancer symptom her doctors ignored for five years.

However, not all rectal bleeding is a sign of colorectal cancer—in some cases, the blood in your stool can be caused by hemorrhoids, a hard bowel movement, or other more benign causes.

Colon cancer can cause blood in the stool when cancerous tumours bleed into the digestive tract. Blood can sometimes be seen in the stool as a bright red, dark red or black colour, and can make ...

“Among the safe, minimally invasive colorectal cancer screening options, CT colonography is more effective at preventing and detecting cancer – and is also more cost-effective – than stool DNA testing ...

An estimated 26,800 Canadians were diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2017, representing 13 per cent of all new cancer cases, while 9,400 Canadians died from the disease, representing 12 per cent ...

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 colon cancer patients.

I still had reservations about getting a colonoscopy. It seemed expensive and intense for just one symptom. At the same time, that symptom seemed to be getting worse after a year, and I now had a ...