MUSCATINE, Iowa — UnityPoint Health is hosting workshops to spread awareness about colon cancer. "We're trying to raise awareness for the importance of early screening for colon cancer," Dr. Teresa ...

Cologuard and other at-home tests are not intended for and have not been tested in people with Lynch syndrome. Furthermore, people with Lynch syndrome quickly progress from having ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Looking back, Rosalyn Kimbrough knows she took her eye off her health. The 66-year-old beloved sister, mother, and grandmother in Indianapolis is now battling late-stage colon cancer.

Sending Unsolicited Stool Test Kits The Best Way To Boost Colon Cancer Screening, Study Argues By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterTHURSDAY, Aug. 7, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Automatically mailing a ...

WICHITA, Kansas – To help raise colon cancer awareness and promote early detection, Via Christi Health will be distributing free fecal occult blood test kits to anyone 50 and older throughout the ...

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 ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) – March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month. This is the 14th year that Lafayette General Endoscopy, Walgreens and KLFY have provided the “Test For Life” as a community awareness for ...

Earlier this year, Juanita Thomas, 63, went to her local Department of Motor Vehicles to register a car. For Thomas — a retired housekeeper, mom, grandmother and great-grandmother in Omaha, Nebraska — ...

Health insurance companies send all kinds of things in the mail: brochures about benefits, branded items such as coasters and duffel bags, and reminders to get certain health tests done. Some have ...

Some of the body’s most important work takes place in one of the least talked-about locations: the colon. A healthy colon helps the body absorb nutrients from the foods we eat. It also helps eliminate ...