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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Alarming trends show that colon—or bowel—cancer is increasing in younger people. If the rise continues, colorectal cancer is ...

Scientists are blaming a specific eating habit for an increase in colorectal cancer in young people, but questions still ...

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

Cell free DNA (cfDNA) screening could reduce colon cancer mortality rate if widely adopted. High participation is key to ...

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 ...