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The American Cancer Society updated its colorectal cancer screening guideline to reflect molecular-based screening tests that received regulatory approval in the past few years.The guideline — last updated in 2018 — now includes additional information about at-home multitarget stool tests. It also addresses a blood-based test that is administered in a physician’s office, though
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