Young colon cancer may not be not the same disease doctors are used to treating. Researchers are discovering new links to ...

At 45, I was fitter, stronger and healthier than I’d ever been, having just rowed across the Atlantic Ocean. It took our ...

A survivor is sharing the colorectal cancer symptoms she missed in the hopes of helping others. About 150,000 Americans are diagnosed annually with colorectal cancer, which occurs when cells in the ...

Colon cancer can cause complications such as bowel obstruction or gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding. Treatments for colon cancer, such as surgery or chemotherapy, can also cause complications. Colon ...

Colonoscopies are still the gold standard, but experts now endorse a high-tech stool test and a blood draw amid rising rates ...

Laura Dawson had always been attentive to her health. At 44, the mum-of-two began experiencing bloating, persistent fatigue, and changes in her body that she assumed were part of perimenopause—the ...

Abdominal pain, bloody stools, changed bowel habits or unexplained weight loss can all be a sign of bowel cancer. Kyryk Ivan/ Shutterstock Almost 2 million people are diagnosed with bowel cancer each ...

One patient taking part in the trial said the therapy has given her a ‘new lease of life’.

Detection of a bowel cancer marker (CDH1) in wastewater may offer a new community-level early warning system for the disease, suggests a proof-of-concept study published in the Journal of Epidemiology ...

Stage 3 colon cancer has spread to the lymph nodes or through the wall of your colon. Doctors commonly treat it with surgery followed by chemotherapy. The most common staging system for colon cancer ...

Patients with a specific type of bowel cancer who were treated with a short course of immunotherapy before surgery instead of post-op chemotherapy have remained cancer-free after almost three years of ...