Changing Trends in Colorectal Cancer (www.webmd.com)

So all told, putting this together, screening is about ideally protecting you, but diagnosis is about investigating the problems that you uncover in your own body so both can come together to give you the best possible outcome.

There are also athome stool tests you can do, not just for blood, but for precancerous DNA in the stool that can really tell you, hey, do I need a colonoscopy right now or is this something that I can watch

And then finally, your family history does matter.

This is about you, it’s also about the genes you inherited.