Colon cancer can cause complications such as bowel obstruction or gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding. Treatments for colon cancer, such as surgery or chemotherapy, can also cause complications. Colon ...

Bowel cancer is the fourth most common cancer in the UK. It is more common in the over-50s but it can affect people of all ages. More than 2,700 people under 50 are diagnosed with bowel cancer in the ...

Stage 3 colon cancer has spread to the lymph nodes or through the wall of your colon. Doctors commonly treat it with surgery followed by chemotherapy. The most common staging system for colon cancer ...

Abdominal pain, bloody stools, changed bowel habits or unexplained weight loss can all be a sign of bowel cancer. Kyryk Ivan/ Shutterstock Almost 2 million people are diagnosed with bowel cancer each ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Years before she was diagnosed with colon cancer at 40, Tracy Robert chalked up her bloating to an IBS ...

Scientists have pinpointed a “Big Bang” moment in bowel cancer—when cells first evade the immune system. This early immune escape locks in how the cancer will behave as it grows. The discovery could ...

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 ...

In the UK, someone is diagnosed with bowel cancer every 12 minutes and around 17,000 people die from it each year. Also called colorectal cancer, it is the second most common cause of cancer death in ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. More colon cancer cases are being diagnosed in the rectums of people in their 40s, 50s, and 60s, a ...

Researchers studying over 8,400 colonoscopies discovered that having both adenomas and serrated polyps in the bowel can raise the risk of serious precancerous changes by up to five times. These two ...

An increasing number of people in their 20s and 30s are being diagnosed with early-onset bowel cancer, which experts say could be an entirely new disease. Those diagnosed often say their symptoms have ...