Colon cancer diagnosis involves colonoscopy, imaging, and blood tests, with staging guiding treatment decisions. Stage 1 treatment typically involves surgery, while stage 2 may include chemotherapy ...

Several colon cancer survivors have shared their experiences of how they ‘knew’ it was time to see a doctor as they revealed ...

The mental load of being a cancer patient.

The researchers examined the five leading causes of cancer death among the under-50 age group. They found that overall, from 1990 through 2023, more than 1.2 million people died of cancer in the ...

Traditionally, treatment for colorectal cancer meant surgery, often leaving patients with a colostomy bag for life. But Patty ...

A mom recalls her first symptoms of colorectal cancer, which she mistook for hemorrhoids caused by her pregnancy at the time.

Fewer people under age 50 are dying from cancer in the U.S., but colorectal cancer mortality rates continue to surge ...

A man was given two years to live after a colon cancer diagnosis. Now he's healthy thanks to combination of medicine and the ...

A woman who dismissed blood in her stool as hemorrhoids was diagnosed with stage three colon cancer. Meagan Meadows, 24, ...

Doctors recommend screening for this disease starting at age 45.

Colorectal cancer has since jumped up from being the fifth-leading cancer death in the early 1990s.