An oncologist explains the situations when doctors recommend getting screened for colorectal cancer before age 45.

A walk-through, inflatable colon was put on display Friday, allowing visitors to see and learn about polyps, early-stage ...

She was 38 years old. When she got home, she was reassured—by two different doctors—that it was probably hemorrhoids. But her ...

According to the American Cancer Society, 20% of all new colon cancer cases happen in people under the age of 55. That’s compared to about 10% back in the 1990s.

Colorectal cancer is rising among young people in the U.S. One woman shares the subtle symptoms that led up to her shock ...

In all, 50% of Americans are unaware that colon cancer can be screened for at home, the survey showed. Researchers said this lack of knowledge combined with health care providers dismissing concerns ...

Colon cancer is a preventable disease, but it is the third leading cancer killer in the United States. It doesn’t have to be! Nine out of 10 […] ...

Around 150,000 people are diagnosed with colorectal cancer each year in the United States, according to the Cancer Research ...

In 2026, an estimated 158,850 new cases of colorectal cancer (CRC) will be diagnosed, and 55,230 people will die from the disease in the United States. The Alaska Native population has the highest CRC ...

You don’t get colon cancer during your 30s or 40s, right? Wrong. Rising rates of colorectal cancer among younger generations show otherwise. This was brought home when actor James Van Der Beek died ...

The recent death of the 48-year-old actor James Van Der Beek is again highlighting how colorectal cancer is increasingly killing younger people. Overall, cancer death rates in people younger than 50 ...

For years, Kirsten Scheller was told the same thing by her doctors: she was too young and too active for colon cancer. In 2010, when she was a 19-year-old college sophomore in Saint Paul, Minnesota, ...