Katie Couric is starring in a playful new public service announcement with a serious message about colon cancer screening that also spoofs the viral Sydney Sweeney jeans ad. The “Lead From Behind” PSA ...

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When Erica Barnell was an MD/PhD student at Washington University in St. Louis, she met a woman who had stage four colorectal cancer (CRC). The woman was only 52 years old—more than a decade younger ...

“Screening is something that people often put on the back burner,” Couric tells PEOPLE, adding that it needs "consistent reminding" Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has ...

Journalist Katie Couric’s new colon cancer screening PSA, released Thursday, appeared to be inspired by "Euphoria" actress Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad. The former network news anchor wore a ...

Medicare pays for colonoscopy screening tests, but how often they're covered depends on whether you are at high or low risk for colorectal cancer. If you are at low risk for colorectal cancer, ...

At 24, Meagan Meadows thought she was too young to have colon cancer but was diagnosed with stage 3. The only warning sign was blood in her stool, which she almost missed because it was difficult to ...

Katie Couric featured on the Today show nearly 25 years after she made history by undergoing a colonoscopy on national television. Katie Couric appeared as a guest on the Today show on Thursday, ...

"If I would have known that so many young people were getting diagnosed with colon cancer, I would have taken the symptom more seriously," Meagan Meadows said Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at ...

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