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As colorectal cancer rates rise in adults under 50, new at-home screening options offer opportunities for early detection.

There is a new and less invasive option to test for colon cancer and it doesn’t require a stay at the hospital or mailing a stool sample.

The benefits to an at-home colorectal cancer screening are obvious: skipping the bowel prep, sedation and time off work that ...

If you have a positive result, that means that it showed blood in the stool. (In this case, “positive” is not necessarily good!) A negative test result means that no blood was found in the ...

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