AMP case report: FDA-approved DNA blood test for colorectal cancer prompts patient to undergo colonoscopy
March 2019—Colorectal cancer is the third most diagnosed cancer and the second highest cause of cancer mortality in men and women, and in 2016 it accounted for about nine percent of all diagnosed cancers in the United States. When CRC is detected at an early localized stage, the five-year survival rate is 90 percent. With progression to regional disease, five-year survival remains high, at 71 percent.