Your pet pooch already lowers your blood pressure and provides emotional support. What if it could also identify your early-stage colon cancer?
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Study: Colonoscopy Is Worth the Discomfort
Screening for cancer is the best way to prevent many forms of the disease, particularly in skin and breast tissue, among other cancers, but the tests aren’t always the easiest to endure.
Study: Cancer Deaths Decline in Europe, but New Cases Rise
As cancer treatment gets more sophisticated, a diagnosis no longer means a death sentence. But while dying of cancer is less likely, a European study finds that the rate of developing cancer is higher than ever.
Developing a urine test to screen for colon cancer
Researchers at University of North Carolina at Greensboro are examining whether urine tests might provide another alternative to (colonoscopy and virtual colonoscopy) for colon cancer screening. In an initial study, published in the American Chemical Society’s Journal of Proteome Research, investigators recruited 123 participants—60
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