Physicians are seeing troublingly rising rates of colon cancer among people under 50, even though colorectal cancer has long ...

Guardant Health has developed a new FDA-approved blood test designed to detect colorectal cancer, and it's now available to patients in North Texas.

A Minnesota woman was told her stage 4 colon cancer couldn’t be cured. Two years later, she’s cancer-free — and says a ...

Bowel cancer is increasing among young people. Cases have doubled in the last 20 years. Lifestyle and diet are major factors.

Marisa Peters experienced blood in her stool and an urgency to go starting at 33. At 39, she learned she had Stage 3 colorectal cancer.

The Population Health Colorectal Cancer Program is working to understand barriers people might face and how health care providers can support people in getting screened. The FIT checks for blood in ...

While the drug may not be strong enough to treat colon cancer on its own, researchers believe it could enhance more aggressive therapies when used in combination.

"I would rather have someone do a blood-based test or a stool-based test than do nothing," she said. Medical professionals urge people to talk with their doctors about their colon cancer risk ...

Marisa Peters experienced blood in her stool and an urgency to go starting at 33. At 39, she learned she had Stage 3 colorectal cancer. In late 2015, Marisa Peters, then 33, noticed blood on the ...

Two simple, at-home screening tests for colon cancer that check for tiny amounts blood in your stool are the fecal immunochemical test (FIT) and guaiac fecal occult blood test (gFOBT). Blood in your ...

Once considered a disease of the elderly, colon cancer is now increasingly affecting younger adults, with medical experts ...