Bowel cancer, also called colon or rectal cancer, is a very common disease. It is the fourth most common cancer, 150000 Americans are diagnosed with colorectal cancer, according to Colorectal Cancer ...

A new study suggests a strong link between eating ultra-processed foods and an increased risk of developing early signs of colon cancer. Ultra-processed foods include items made with industrial ...

Dr. Zachariah H. Foda discusses key colorectal cancer warning signs, the rise in younger diagnoses and more. In honor of Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, Dr. Zachariah H. Foda, who is the Assistant ...

Occasional constipation is common, but doctors warn that constipation lasting for months may signal colon cancer, especially ...

(CNN) — Nobody ever wants to hear they have cancer, but when it strikes a young person, the news is perhaps even more devastating because everything about the future they were imagining and working ...

Five years ago, Tim Cannon, a cancer doctor in Virginia, saw that his colon cancer patients were getting younger and their cancer was more aggressive. He had just diagnosed three people in their 30s ...

Colorectal cancer used to be considered a cancer of older age. Not anymore. Patients in their teens and early 20s still aren’t the norm, exactly, but are becoming more common. Exercise, diet and ...

I had rectal bleeding, the most common symptom of colon cancer in people under 45. I also had a family history of colon cancer, which pushed me to get a colonoscopy at 33. My out-of-pocket colonoscopy ...

Colorectal cancer is a cancer that starts in the colon (large intestine) or rectum. Often, it begins as abnormal growths called polyps that develop within the lining of the colon and/or rectum. As ...