He has started prescribing a new kind of screening — the Shield blood test — for his patients who are hesitant to get a colonoscopy. For a decade, we've had stool collection kits like Cologuard.

But what we’re offering is a fit kit. Which is a stool test kit that detects blood in your stool. So you take it home and do it in the privacy of your own home, mail it back, get the test ...

As blood in stool could be an early sign of bowel cancer ... If you’re over 50, you might receive a test kit as part of this update. The reason for this age range is that the risk of bowel ...

Sometimes, they just put it off, said Dr. Antoine Pham, an internal medicine doctor with Thrive Medical. He has started ...