A blood test to screen for colorectal cancer is one step closer to receiving approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. An FDA advisory panel -- the Medical Devices Advisory Committee ...
May 23 (UPI) --A panel of U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisers on Thursday recommended approval for a new blood test to detect colon and rectal cancer despite concerns over the test's accuracy.
The Shield blood test was able to accurately detect colorectal cancer about 83 percent of the time. It was able to detect precancerous lesions about 13 percent of the time. The prescription-only ...
A blood test to screen for colorectal cancer is one step closer to receiving approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. An FDA advisory panel — the Medical Devices Advisory Committee ...
To screen for colon and rectal cancers, most people have colonoscopies, which can feel invasive and require anesthesia, or they may take an at-home stool test, which can be more convenient but ...
Around 150,000 Americans are diagnosed with colon cancer every year, and as the country's second-leading cause of cancer deaths, it kills about 50,000 people annually, according to the American Cancer ...
May 29 (UPI) --More than 53,000 Americans are projected to die from colorectal cancer this year. Although colorectal cancer is the second-most common cause of cancer deaths in the United States ...
Nearly 10% of deferred donors returned to American Red Cross Centers to donate. For years, Jose Dominguez, 50, had wanted to donate blood, feeling it was part of his civic duty. But he was ...
There's potential good news for a sizable minority of people battling advanced colon cancer. Doctors in Britain say that an immunotherapy drug, given before surgery, can help many more patients ...