Colorectal cancer has been receiving more attention in recent months. It is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer in men ...

Olympic gold medalist Abby Wambach had a colonoscopy in her 30s after a family history of colon cancer. It found polyps that may have become tumors.

With March being colon cancer awareness month, it’s a good time to look at some startling numbers on the disease here in the ...

(WLUK) -- It's National Cancer prevention month and in the U.S., colon cancer is the third most common cancer diagnosed in both men and women. It's also the third-leading cause of cancer-related ...

Mail-based screening programs are helping more Americans stay up to date with colorectal cancer tests—often with a simple box delivered at home.

A new public service announcement campaign was launched by the Hawai‘i State Department of Health to encourage adults to get ...

COLON cancer continues to pose a significant burden in many societies worldwide. Globally, colon cancer is the third most common cancer in men and the second most common in women. A similar trend is ...

Health insurance companies send all kinds of things in the mail: brochures about benefits, branded items such as coasters and duffel bags, and reminders to get certain health tests done. Some have ...

“You’re young. You’re healthy. We’re not worried about cancer.” Those words echoed in doctor’s offices 2,500 miles apart. Sarah Beran heard them in Los Angeles when she mentioned blood in her stool.

What we thought we knew about colorectal cancer is changing: It’s no longer confined to older adults, and it no longer follows a predictable pattern. While men and women are diagnosed at similar rates ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rates of colon cancer in people under 50 have grown in recent decades. One study found that 82% of young colon cancer patients ...