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A new blood test can help detect colon cancer, but it’s not as good as the test you hate to take
A new blood test can help detect colon cancer but is less effective than colonoscopy. Approximately 50 million Americans are not getting screened for colon cancer during a period of rising colon-cancer rates.
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