A doctor and public health expert explains why the new federal guidelines expanding cervical cancer screening to at-home ...

A major update to federal women’s health preventive guidance will make it easier for women to get screened for cervical ...

A new and important discovery comes from the field of oncological research thanks to the joint work of researchers from the ...

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends colorectal cancer screening for all adults starting at age 45. After age 75, the task force recommends talking with your health care team to decide ...

Some claim the new multi-cancer detection tests will “revolutionize” cancer screening. Others fear the “worried well” will succumb to slick marketing and subpar tests and overwhelm both primary care ...

Galleri is a blood test that aims to detect over 50 types of cancer early. It analyzes cell-free DNA (cfDNA) and methylation patterns to identify potential cancer signals. The test is intended for ...

For the first time, a federal health agency’s cervical cancer screening guidance includes an option for women to collect ...

The UC Santa Cruz Colligan Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory (CCDL) has received its CLIA certificate of registration from the California Department of Public Health, which clears the way for it to begin ...

Cancer’s genetic fingerprints may lurk in people’s blood long before they find out about the disease. It’s possible to spot tumor DNA more than three years before a person is diagnosed with cancer, ...

Motivations for startups can come from many different places. For Andrea Stephany, co-founder and CEO of OncoSwab, it came from family. Several years ago, her mother began experiencing a cough and ...

What if a single blood test could determine whether you had one of 14 types of cancer? That's the question posed by a study published in November in the journal Cancer. Conducted by researchers at the ...

Colorectal cancer cases are rising among younger people, striking even folks without obvious risk factors. For nearly two decades, UC San Francisco Family Community Medicine Professor Micheal Potter, ...