Colorectal Cancer Health Center

In average-risk people, screening colonoscopies were associated with a 70 percent reduction in risk for new, late-stage colon cancer, including hard-to-detect cancers on the right side of the colon. Advanced colon cancer is the least curable form. Although colonoscopy is widely used as a screening test for colon cancer, there is little research that proves it is effective in reducing...

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Do Men Need Earlier Colorectal Screenings?

The Austrian study, published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that men frequently have advanced polyps that could lead to colorectal cancer at ages 45 to 49, a decade earlier than women. These findings have prompted the researchers to conclude that men should likely have their first colonoscopy earlier than 50, the age that current guidelines recommend. “Our...

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