As quality indicators and benchmarks for colonoscopy increase in coming years, gastroenterologists must think about ways to ...

New Study Shows at-Home Colon Cancer Screening Test Reduces Risk of Colorectal Cancer Death, as Effective as Screening Colonoscopy July 25, 2024 — A noninvasive colorectal cancer screening test ...

Rates of colon cancer among young people have been steadily rising over the past three decades, even as diagnoses among older people decline. A staggering 20% of colorectal cancer cases in 2019 ...

Bowel resection, also called partial colectomy, removes a diseased or damaged part of the colon or rectum. Bowel resection can be done for many diseases that affect the colon, such as colorectal ...

Colon cancer is the third most common cancer in males. How can it be prevented? Is it curable? To know the answers, read on.

A fecal occult blood test looks for signs of problems in your digestive system, such as a polyp or cancer in the colon or rectum. Chemotherapy is drugs that can kill cancer cells.

Calcifications suggest a mucinous adenocarcinoma, which implies a primary site from the colon ... normal liver may be avoided, which increases the yield of the specimen. With traditional CT ...

MRI and CT scans revealed stage four colon cancer, which had spread to her ... I feel like I'm able to have a little bit more ...

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The overall rate of older people being diagnosed with colon or rectal cancer each year is dropping. However, the number of people younger than 55 has steadily risen since the mid-1990s.

Highs today will be in the mid- to upper-60s, a "bit below normal," the weather service said. Thursday will see highs warm into the 70s, which is a "bit above normal," the weather service said.

The Stephen Petronio dance company was awarded a $500,000 grant to preserve 77 acres of ...