What’s left is poop, a.k.a. stool, which is stored in your rectum until you’re ready to have a bowel movement. “The presence ...

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

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

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.

Rory Kennedy, 36, has no family history of cancer. He’s not overweight, and he has always maintained a healthy lifestyle — clean diet, regular exercise, no smoking or drinking. So when he was ...

Pune: When 50-year-old Anil* visited multiple doctors with complaints of blood in his stool, the specialists diagnosed him ...

When it comes to cancer prevention, there’s no one magic nutrient or habit. Instead, your overall lifestyle will have the ...

Before the test, your health care team will give you instructions for how to clear your colon of any stool. This process is called bowel ... At-home screening tests for colon cancer include fecal ...

FIT is a colon cancer screening test you can do at home. It comes in a kit and is fairly quick, simple and convenient to use. FIT is a noninvasive, stool-based test. You use the kit to take a sample ...

Here’s the good news: The rate of colorectal cancer diagnosis has been dropping since the mid-1980s, mostly because more people are getting screening tests like colonoscopies and stool-based ...