March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month. According to the American Cancer Society, it’s estimated more than 108,000 people living in the U.S. will be diagnosed with colon cancer this year.

As colorectal cancer rates rise in patients under 50, at least two local health systems are hiring more doctors, realigning care and increasing education.

Colorectal Cancer is a cancer that has traditionally been considered a disease of older adults. But doctors tell us that's no longer the case, as younger people are being diagnosed at rising rates.

Colorectal cancer symptoms a Mayo Clinic gastroenterologist monitors in himself include seeing blood with a bowel movement and abdominal pain.

NEW ORLEANS - Ochsner MD Anderson Cancer Center will be the first in the South to offer Biology-Guided Radiotherapy, joining ...

Five-year survival rates are among the lowest of all cancers, at about 25%. But when caught early enough – through annual CT screenings for those eligible – the disease can be completely curable.

As an OB-GYN training to be a complex family planning subspecialist at UC San Diego, I have seen misinformation about hormonal birth control circulating widely across the internet. Popular TikTok ...

Cancer generally becomes more of a risk as we get older, but recent studies have shown an increase of about three percent in people under 50 since 2018. Now, scientists studying the condition have ...

More and more, it may seem that the answer to common health quandaries leads to a single culprit: our guts. The gut microbiome – the ecosystem of bacteria and other tiny organisms that live in our ...

After being diagnosed with stage 3 rectal cancer at 26, she’s made a conscious effort to talk openly about the often-taboo ...