Staging means finding out how far colon cancer has spread in your body. Physicians group colon cancers into stages I (1) through IV (4), with stage I being the least advanced and stage IV being the ...

One large study found that more advanced cases of colorectal cancer had a higher likelihood of returning. For example, if participants had stage 3 colon cancer, almost 25 percent experienced a ...

Katreena Davis of Georgia CORE discusses the troubling rise of colon cancer in young people and Black people, in particular.

Chemotherapy uses medicines to kill fast-growing cells (like cancer cells) or to keep them from dividing (which is how cancers grow). It is a systemic treatment. This means the medicines will travel ...

Margaret Kelly has been donating blood regularly since her youth. “I started donating blood back when I was in my 20s. I really saw a lot of people suffering and sick, and back then there was a blood ...

From intensifying therapy in ctDNA-positive bladder cancer to scaling it back in ctDNA-negative colon cancer, new data from ...

* Colon cancer is the third most common cancer in males * Oral cavity bacteria are responsible for the progression of colon cancer * Adopting a healthy diet and habits may help lower your colorectal ...

Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) — genetic material shed from tumors into the bloodstream — may help risk-stratify patients with ...

She discovered blood in her stool, and quickly received tests, scans and a biopsy, which revealed the cancer was spreading to her lymph nodes She admits that when she saw the bloody stool, she could ...