Currently, the false positive rate for Cologuard is 13% ... guidelines recommend colorectal cancer screening starting at age 45, the screening age is expected to be lowered to 40 by 2027 ...

Sometimes, they just put it off, said Dr. Antoine Pham, an internal medicine doctor with Thrive Medical. He has started prescribing a new kind of screening — the Shield blood test — for his patients ...

Well, my primary doctor ordered a Cologuard test for me. That’s a colonoscopy in a box. So much for getting out of that.