(NEXSTAR) — An unexpected delivery at your door may not always be an unwelcome surprise — just ask one Kentucky boy about the thousands of dollars worth of lollipops that arrived at his home earlier ...

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 ...

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends colorectal cancer screening for all adults starting at age 45. After age 75, the task force recommends talking with your health care team to decide ...

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 ...

Automatically mailing a stool test kit to people's homes might be the best way to boost colon cancer screening among younger adults, a new study says. More 45- to 49-year-olds went ahead with cancer ...

INDIANAPOLIS — When Alnisa Armstrong went for a routine baseline colonoscopy at age 50, she wasn't worried. As a mom, grandma and fitness enthusiast, she felt she was doing everything to stay healthy.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

DAVENPORT -- Anyone 50 years old or older, or those with other factors associated with an increased risk of colon cancer, are encouraged to pick up and return a free colon cancer testing kit in the ...

Colonoscopy is the gold standard for detecting colon cancer, but every year about 50 million people in the U.S. who qualify for a colonoscopy don't get it done, according to the American Cancer ...