You already know how important it is to get screened for colorectal cancer starting at age 45, and the recent tragic passing ...

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month — the perfect time to talk about the importance of screening for colon cancer via colonoscopies. When you're ready to make an appointment, did you know there ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you’re at the age where colorectal screening is recommended to prevent colon cancer (between 45 and 75), you might see the new, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After the fasting, the uncomfortable cleanse and a drowsy ride home, it’s a relief to have your colonoscopy screening behind you.

You don’t get colon cancer during your 30s or 40s, right? Wrong. Rising rates of colorectal cancer among younger generations show otherwise. This was brought home when actor James Van Der Beek died ...

Colon cancer is now the deadliest cancer for people under 50, and researchers are scrambling to understand why rectal cases are driving the trend.

Any blood in the stool—whether bright red, maroon, or black and tarry—should prompt immediate medical attention. For cases of left-sided colon cancer, blood in the stool is often one of the first ...

A 20-year-old woman experienced on-and-off stomach pain, then sudden nausea and chills. She was diagnosed with stage 2 colon ...

Some Iowa doctors are expressing concerns over a land mark study that questions the effectiveness of colonoscopies. The study — the largest of its kind — was recently published in The New England ...

After the fasting, the uncomfortable cleanse and a drowsy ride home, it's a relief to have your colonoscopy screening behind you. But when the report arrives with the words "colon polyps," some ...