Mercy Hospital St. Louis 1st in area to offer Cologuard

Mercy Hospital St. Louis will now offer Cologuard, according to a Benzinga report.

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Cologuard is the first and only U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved noninvasive stool DNA screening test for colorectal cancer. It has been proven to find 92 percent of colorectal cancers in average risk patients.

Mercy is the first hospital in the St. Louis area to make this new option available, according to the report.

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