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

Fecal occult blood testing (FOBT) has been proposed as an alternative to colonoscopic screening for the detection of colorectal cancer, but requires multiple stool samples because occult bleeding ...

He has started prescribing a new kind of screening — the Shield blood test — for his patients who are hesitant to get a colonoscopy. For a decade, we've had stool collection kits like Cologuard.

As blood in stool could be an early sign of bowel cancer ... If you’re over 50, you might receive a test kit as part of this update. The reason for this age range is that the risk of bowel ...

Some 2,600 cases of bowel cancer are reported in Ireland every year. It’s the third most common cause of cancer death.These ...