Colon cancer is now the number one cancer killer in the U.S. of people ages 50 and younger, and yet many folks (at any age) are reluctant to get a colonoscopy -- the gold standard for detection of ...

Learn about the significance of colonoscopies in detecting and preventing colon cancer, especially in high-risk populations ...

A major European trial has pushed colonoscopy back into the medical spotlight. After 13 years, the NordICC study found that ...

When Brooks Bell was 38, doctors told her she was too young to have colon cancer, dismissing her textbook symptoms as "likely hemorrhoids." A few months later, after pushing for tests, the North ...

Loss of GATA6—a transcription factor that controls which genes are turned on or off—can reprogram colorectal cancer cells ...

As of July 1, Ontario will offer publicly funded colorectal cancer (CRC) screening to patients as young as 45 years. Patients ...

Your diet can help with all sorts of health issues, though nothing guarantees it ...

A young man's cancer diagnosis highlights the symptom many people dismiss until the disease is already advanced.

A team of scientists from the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University and institutions across the U.S.

Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States, and researchers are paying ...