Mike Francisco was an athletic 35-year-old Phoenix medical professional when he was diagnosed with late-stage colon cancer. His story is not unusual.

When he started having symptoms, “cancer was the farthest thing from my mind,” he says. How a liver transplant and his dog ...

Research published by the American Cancer Society (ACS) this month found that the disease is killing people aged between 20 and 49 years old at unprecedented rates.

Higher BMI and current smoking are significantly associated with an increased risk for advanced CRC and serrated lesions among adults aged younger than 50 years.

A Los Angeles mother’s unexpected stage 4 cancer diagnosis led to an uncommon liver transplant, offering new hope for select colorectal cancer patients.

Colon cancer is appearing more often in younger adults, and many of those cases go undetected until the disease has already spread.

But it wasn't until he started to feel an odd pain that he thought something was off, too. "I started to get a little bit of upper right rib cage pain that I thought was an abdominal muscle," he says.