Fecal Immunochemical Testing (FIT) is usually preferred by people for screening of colorectal cancer. But a higher number of lesions can be detected more clearly using colonoscopy. Though fecal ...

Colonoscopy is required following a positive fecal screening test for CRC. It remains unclear to what extent time to colonoscopy is associated with CRC-related outcomes, so study authors performed a ...

Objective To estimate benefits and harms of different colorectal cancer screening strategies, stratified by (baseline) 15-year colorectal cancer risk. Design Microsimulation modelling study using ...

Objective To estimate benefits and harms of different colorectal cancer screening strategies, stratified by (baseline) 15-year colorectal cancer risk. Design Microsimulation modelling study using ...

A team of 60 gastroenterology experts recommended gastroenterologists move on from a “one-size-fits-all” approach to colorectal cancer screening, in a new preprint study published in Clinical ...

A patient who had repeatedly refused routine screening for colorectal cancer (CRC), despite having lost his 80-year-old father to the disease, was again advised to undergo a colonoscopy at age 56. He ...

Stool-based DNA testing can help bridge CRC screening gaps between rural and urban populations by providing timely follow-up. The study found no significant difference in follow-up times for ...

Dear Dr. Gott: I am writing you because of some of the columns and advice your readers and you have given us in regard to colonoscopy testing. I was a lot like most individuals in that I didn”t think ...

In this era of skyrocketing health-care costs, how many serial stool guaiac tests would a patient have to have in order to obtain results equivalent to screening colonoscopy for colorectal cancer?