In a survey of 1,535 colon cancer survivors under 50 by the Colorectal Cancer Alliance, 82% said they were first misdiagnosed ...

Tens of millions of middle-aged and older Americans haven't gotten their recommended checks for early signs of potential ...

A new blood test for cancer DNA — the genetic code that differentiates cancer from healthy tissue — allows doctors to ...

In addition to possibly helping to protect the liver, coffee could also aide in colon cancer patients’ longevity, according to a new study. In a study of 1,171 patients with advanced or metastatic ...

Rates of colon cancer in people under 50 have grown in recent decades. One study found that 82% of young colon cancer patients were misdiagnosed initially. Two women who had colon cancer in their 30s ...

Two years ago, Emma Dimery was told her stage 4 colon cancer was incurable. Today, she is healthy and cancer-free — and she says a last-resort clinical trial saved her life. Dimery, who lives in ...

Early signs of colon cancer include rectal bleeding and changes in bowel movements. Young patients can feel embarrassed to talk about early symptoms such as constipation and diarrhea. Normalizing ...

A three-year exercise program improved survival in colon cancer patients and kept disease at bay, a first-of-its-kind international experiment showed. With the benefits rivaling some drugs, experts ...

After an increase in colorectal cancer among patients younger than 50, U.S. guidelines started recommending that screening begin at age 45 for average-risk adults. This study showed that ...

Taken together with previous observational, genomic, and early trial data, our findings support the integration of aspirin into clinical practice for a molecularly defined subgroup of patients with ...

In my 34 years of professional nursing, I have witnessed the profound and often unimaginable toll that cancer has on patients ...