Colon cancer patients were mailed an educational brochure about hereditary colon cancer along with an initial patient survey at the time of first contact, and mailed a follow-up patient survey ...

Getting people aged 50 and older to adhere to colorectal cancer screening guidelines can be just as arduous a task as getting sugar-crazed kids to eat their Brussels sprouts, but a new study in the ...

Education by community-based non-professional health workers significantly increased colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates among mostly non-English-speaking, older Chinese-Americans in San Francisco ...

CHAPEL HILL -- Watching a videotape that explains the medical procedures involved and their importance in a doctor's office can boost the number of patients who undergo screening for colon cancer ...

Health officials say about 40 per cent of Nova Scotians who receive the tests use them and return them with a fecal sample, but NSCAD's John deWolf says better design could improve those numbers.