Lifesaving approach to screening for colon cancer steps forward

Mailing yearly stool kits -- an alternative to the often-dreaded colonoscopy -- has helped an organization to boost rates of lifesaving screening for colon cancer, according to new research. Mailing an easy-to-use at-home stool kit to test more than 1,000 patients boosted the screening rate from less than four in 10, to more than half of these hard-to-reach patients, who had never had a colonoscopy and were overdue for screening.