Earlier initiation of average-risk screening at age 45 reflects increasing concern about younger-onset colorectal cancer epidemiology. High-risk groups, including those with family history, inflammatory bowel disease,

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you’re at the age where colorectal screening is recommended to prevent colon cancer (between 45 and 75), you might see the new, landmark study published in the New England Journal ...

A single screening colonoscopy reduced colorectal cancer incidence by roughly 30% over 13 years — a meaningful improvement over earlier findings — but failed to produce a statistically significant reduction in colorectal cancer deaths,

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The recent death of the 48-year-old actor James Van Der Beek is again highlighting how colorectal cancer is increasingly killing younger people. Overall, cancer death rates in people younger than 50 have dropped by 44% since 1990. But after increasing for ...

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AI-assisted colonoscopy could detect diminutive adenomas at higher rates than standard colonoscopy, which could be beneficial to populations at high risk for colorectal cancer.A randomized trial of more than 1,