The American Journal of Managed Care

CRC Screening Should Be Continued in Older Patients Who Smoke, Have History of Disease

A study found significant incidence of advanced neoplasia in patients who had a colonoscopy to screen for colorectal cancer (CRC) when aged more than 75 years. The incidence of CRC is known to ...
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Beating CRC, one test at a time — Exact Sciences’ Mark Stenhouse stumps for Cologuard

Mark Stenhouse left his executive role at AbbVie to join Exact Sciences because he felt the company was fighting a worthy battle: preventing colorectal cancer. Mr. Stenhouse, now Exact Science’s ...
Medscape

Fecal Immunochemical Test Performance for CRC Screening Varies Widely

Although considered a single class, fecal immunochemical tests (FITs) vary in their ability to detect advanced colorectal neoplasia (ACN) and should not be considered interchangeable, new research ...
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FDA approves new stool collection kit of Geneoscopy’s CRC screening test

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an improved stool collection kit of Geneoscopy’s RNA-based colorectal cancer (CRC) screening test, ColoSense. The new kit enhances user ...
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Exact Sciences to acquire US rights for Freenome’s blood-based CRC test

Freenome has entered an exclusive licence agreement with Exact Sciences, granting the latter the rights to commercialise Freenome's blood-based colorectal cancer (CRC) screening test in the US. Exact ...
Business Wire

PREEMPT CRC™ Trial for Blood-Based Test to Detect Colon Cancer Has Expanded to Enroll Patients From Anywhere in the Continental U.S. During COVID-19 Pandemic

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Freenome, a privately held biotechnology company that has pioneered a comprehensive multiomics platform for early cancer detection with a routine blood ...
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Study: Additional screening test option didn’t increase CRC screening rates

Presenting patients with a choice of screening options didn’t result in more patients getting screened for colorectal cancer, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open. Researchers examined ...