QUINCY — In recognition of National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, Blessing Health is providing free, take-home colorectal cancer screening kits to the public at locations in West-Central Illinois ...
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - The Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department (LLCHD) and Crusade Against Colon Cancer coalition partners announced Monday that easy-to-use colon cancer screening kits are ...
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Wichita’s Ascension Via Christi is offering free colorectal screening kits to anyone 45 and older while supplies last. To receive a kit, call 316-268-5890 for one to be mailed.
CHEYENNE – According to the CDC, when cells in the body grow out of control, this leads to cancer. If cancer starts in the colon or rectum, it’s called colorectal cancer (colon cancer). Colorectal ...
March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, and to raise awareness La Porte Regional Health System offers free colorectal cancer screenings to the community. Colorectal cancer is a highly preventable, ...
Cologuard is a colon cancer screening test you can do at home. It’s a noninvasive, stool-based test that comes in a kit. You use the kit to collect a stool sample. Then you send the sample to a lab ...
Findings compared with three opt-in screening strategies among average-risk adults aged 45 to 49 years. HealthDay News — Mailing a stool-based test directly to people’s homes is the most effective ...
This March, which is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, Kinney Drugs is partnering with the American Cancer Society, Upstate Cancer Center and Quest Diagnostics to provide colorectal cancer screening ...
Two decades ago, colorectal cancer was the fourth leading cause of cancer death in both men and women under age 50. It is now first in men and second in women, yet only 38% of Nebraskans ages 45-54 ...
Colorectal cancer was once considered primarily a disease of aging. But rates are now on the rise among younger adults. Since 2011, colon cancer rates among people younger than 50 have increased by ...
According to Cologuard, made by Wisconsin-based Exact Sciences, there are three primary reasons why you may receive a testing ...
Jeff Smith was dumbfounded when he received a colon cancer screening kit in the mail. The 68-year-old Minnesota man hadn't asked for the Cologuard test, and his doctor hadn't mentioned anything about ...