Colorectal cancer screening remains a cornerstone of preventive medicine, with strategies evolving to reduce both incidence and mortality worldwide. Current screening programmes utilise a range of ...

When David Thau, a lobbyist in Washington, D.C., was 34, he periodically experienced pain in his stomach, irregular bowel movements, blood in his stool and vomiting, and he visited doctors who ...

A newly discovered virus hiding inside a common gut bacterium could help explain one of medicine’s long-standing mysteries: why a microbe found in both healthy people and cancer patients is linked to ...

Genetic mutations in colon cells create adenomas, which develop into colorectal cancer. Therefore, adenomas (a cause of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Kaiser Permanente systematic outreach program doubled colon cancer screening rates, researchers are scheduled to report at the ...

A doctor explains what to know about your risk of colon cancer as he's treating more young patients, including a 22-year-old ...

This week, Bobbi Conner talks with MUSC's Dr. Thomas Curran about the increase in colon cancer in younger adults and options ...

More cases of colorectal cancer are detected at an early stage with screening. This is according to new research based on data from over 278,000 60-year-olds, who were randomly selected to undergo one ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kentucky has long carried one of the highest burdens of colorectal cancer in the nation. For too many families, it is a diagnosis ...

While the incidence of colorectal cancer is decreasing among those over 50, it is rising at an alarming rate among younger ...