The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) granted an Innovation Award to researchers working on a blood test to detect colon cancer. The ... Read more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently published an article highlighting the incidence of colorectal cancer, particularly among minorities. The study ... Read more
Overweight children and youngsters may have a higher risk of developing colorectal cancer later in life, according to a study recently published ... Read more
During Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month being celebrated this March, specialists for the disease are joining efforts to improve awareness about preventing the disease within the ... Read more
The Texas A&M Health Science Center announced it is expanding its Cancer Screening, Training, Education and Prevention (C-STEP) program to an additional 10 ... Read more
Concern about the possibility of developing cancer often times leads to colon cancer screening. However, the same concern also makes people less likely to actually undergo ... Read more
During the American Society of Clinical Oncology Quality Care Symposium, in Boston, health provider Kaiser Permanente Southern California announced its focus in reducing the number ... Read more
The molecular diagnostics company Exact Sciences Corporation announced that their non-profit cooperative, health plan Group Health Cooperative, is going to become the first ... Read more
Colon cancer is a malignant tumor afflicting any of the five parts of the colon, which are the ascending colon, transverse colon, descending ... Read more
Genomic Health, a provider of genomic-based diagnostic tests for treatment of early stage cancer, revealed positive results of a health economic study that demonstrates ... Read more
Newly diagnosed colorectal cancer patients are recommended to partake in genetic testing of their tumors by the U.S. Multi-Society Task Force on ... Read more
