To help observe Colon Cancer Awareness Month, the hospital is inviting the public to free tours of an inflatable colon that's big enough to walk through. The idea is to provide a fun, interactive ...

Resection of tumors in the caudate lobe (a deep, hard-to-reach part of the liver) is recognized as one of the most technically challenging procedures in hepatic surgery due to its unique anatomical ...

As promised, Rubén Blades is paying tribute to his longtime collaborator and friend Willie Colón. Colon died on Saturday at age 75. Once his family announced the news, Blades took to Instagram. “What ...

PINETOPS, N.C. (WITN) - Thirty-two-year-old Zachary Whitfield, who has lost four family members to cancer, is due to have surgery this week at ECU Health in Greenville to remove his colon after a ...

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 ...

Colorectal cancer is a threat not just to older adults but increasingly to young men and women, too. It’s now the top cancer killer of Americans younger than 50. The deaths of “Dawson’s Creek” actor ...

A bowel cancer patient has become the first to have life-saving surgery using a new multi-million-pound robot at a Kent hospital. Mandy Lee from Whitstable who had originally dismissed her bowel ...

ctDNA testing post-surgery identifies high-risk stage 3 colon cancer patients more accurately than traditional staging methods. Detectable ctDNA correlates with a four- to six-fold increased risk of ...

Chronic inflammation may be quietly reshaping the colon and making it more vulnerable to early-onset colorectal cancer. Scientists found that colon tissue in younger patients was stiffer, even in ...

Most types of cancer have become less deadly over time in adults younger than age 50 in the U.S. but colon and rectum cancers continue to cost lives at alarming rates, according to a new report from ...

Jenna Scott remembers the joy of being pregnant with her first and only child. She also remembers the immense abdominal pain. During her pregnancy, she let her doctors know about the persistent ...

The National Cancer Institute estimates that more than 150,000 people will receive a colorectal cancer diagnosis in 2025, and factors like gender, age, and family health history can increase your risk ...