Philadelphia hospital turns to simpler screening for colon cancer
To get more people screened for colorectal cancer, Philadelphia doctors at Temple University turn to stool-based take home tests.
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To get more people screened for colorectal cancer, Philadelphia doctors at Temple University turn to stool-based take home tests.
Colonoscopy remains the gold standard of screening for colorectal cancer, which is highly treatable and curable when caught early. An estimated 106,970 people will be diagnosed this year.
Temple Health physicians are expanding a program to increase access to stool-based screening kits, an alternative to colonoscopies.
/PRNewswire/ -- Independence Blue Cross (Independence) awarded two Clinical Care Innovation Grants (CCI Grants) to Temple Health and Penn Medicine to support...
Temple Health was recently recognized with the American College of Gastroenterology’s Service Award for Colorectal Cancer Outreach, Prevention & Year-Round Excellence for its coordinated health campaign against colon cancer.