People 65 and older are seeing their rates of colorectal cancer drop, but younger people are being felled by a rising number ...

Scientists say factors that shape the microbiome early in life — including diet, antibiotics, and breastfeeding — may influence cancer risk years later.

While colorectal cancer mostly occurs among people age 50 and older, the number of younger people getting the illness has dramatically climbed over the past few decades. Because young people don’t ...

Colorectal cancer screening can help your doctor find and remove precancerous polyps before they become cancer or find colorectal cancer early when it’s most treatable. Colorectal cancer screening ...

Time for a gut check. About 150,000 Americans are diagnosed annually with colorectal cancer, which occurs when cells in the colon or rectum grow out of control. While colorectal cancer is ...

Colon cancer is one of the most preventable cancers in the United States, but each year it claims more than 50,000 lives – in part because early symptoms can be mild and easily missed. “Colon cancer ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. A new report found that colorectal cancer is now the ...

Don’t turn the other cheek! Colorectal cancer is one of the most common and deadliest cancers worldwide — it’s expected to cause nearly 53,000 deaths in the US this year. And it’s rising among younger ...

Doctors say it’s common for symptoms of pregnancy and colon cancer to overlap, and that’s why some diagnoses get missed. It ...