It’s an alternative to the dreaded pap smear, and you can do it yourself right at home.

With March being National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, there’s never been a better time to screen for the disease. CRC ...

Medicare will now cover tests that screen for multiple types of cancer at once, under a new bipartisan law backed by Georgia ...

Guardant Health markets Shield, an FDA-approved blood test for primary colorectal cancer screening. The Harris Poll conducted the survey from Feb. 24-26, 2026, among 1,189 U.S. adults, ages 45 and ...

The latest cholesterol guidelines include three new screening tests: coronary artery calcium, lipoprotein (a), and apolipoprotein B.

The survey results reveal strong enthusiasm for blood-based screening options among adults aged 45 and older, the group ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Omer Awan is a practicing physician who covers public health. Lung cancer screening remains strikingly underused, with ...

When David Thau, a lobbyist in Washington, D.C., was 34, he periodically experienced pain in his stomach, irregular bowel movements, blood in his stool and vomiting, and he visited doctors ...

Patients with a positive fecal occult blood test (FOBT) who did not undergo follow-up colonoscopy had a fourfold increased incidence of colorectal cancer, a Swedish population-based cohort study ...

Rishi Sunak has urged men to be checked for prostate cancer as part of a new screening drive. The former prime minister has given his backing to an initiative run by the charity P ...