When someone is diagnosed with colorectal cancer—which includes both colon and rectal cancers—many people immediately think ...

According to the American Cancer Society, colorectal cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death in men and women in the U.S., and one recent survivor ...

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 ...

Dr. Eric Dozois, a colon and rectal surgeon at the Mayo Clinic says that cancer cases in Minnesota have been on the rise with patients under 50, with 10 percent of colorectal cases now being in that ...

When Janice Johnson went to the hospital for what she thought was food poisoning, she had no idea it would lead to a cancer diagnosis in her 40s. Despite her immediate fear, Janice refused to accept a ...

Colon cancer is appearing more often in younger adults, and many of those cases go undetected until the disease has already spread.

Cancer is the second-leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for over 613,000 fatalities in 2023, per the Centers for Disease Control. But the field of cancer vaccines, which can be ...

I was more scared to go on chemo than I was to find out I had cancer again.” Chemotherapy would have limited the amount of time he was able to spend with his daughter due to the side effects, such as ...

Piedmont Oncology physicians want to educate people about colorectal cancer and what you can do to decrease your risk of developing it or enable an earlier, more curable diagnosis.

Marisa Peters, 44, a mother of three and former Broadway vocalist, first noticed bleeding when going to the bathroom after ...