As scientists question the rise in early colon cancer cases, a new study is offering some potential answers. Colored scanning ...

The otherwise healthy 34-year-old dealt with the issue for more than a year and a half before her life came to a screeching halt with a gut-wrenching diagnosis: stage 4 colorectal cancer.

Symptoms caused by both IBS and colon cancer include: People with IBS may pass mucus with their stool that appears in or on ...

More than two-thirds of U.S. adults say they would rather file their taxes than get a colonoscopy, according to data from a ...

When Peters first noticed blood on toilet paper after bowel movements at age 33, her doctors quickly dismissed it as a ...

Cancer that impacts the colon or rectum can cause irritation, inflammation, and bleeding. Blood may appear bright red or could cause stool to have a darker color. Some cases of colon and rectal ...

Cologuard is a colon cancer screening test you can do at home. It’s a noninvasive, stool-based test that comes in a kit. You use the kit to collect a stool sample. Then you send the sample to a lab ...

They evaluated outcomes of a systematic outreach program that started in 2007, reminding patients who were overdue for colon cancer screening and sending them convenient at-home stool tests.