Emily King of Mobile, Alabama, was diagnosed with colon cancer five years ago at the age of 27. She had experienced some diarrhea, abdominal pain and anemia, but having cancer had never entered ...

Often mistaken as piles or fissures, doctors now insist on colonoscopy to detect growth in the early stages when it is ...

Typically, colon cancer develops gradually and progresses through various stages over several years. However, with ...

But a colonoscopy—in which your doctor uses a special camera to look inside your colon and rectum in search of abnormal ...

But for almost all colon cancers, you do not need a colostomy. So it's only the very low rectal cancers where that's needed, and also in the treatment, when you're talking about adjuvant treatment ...

A colostomy is an operation to create an opening (stoma) of the large bowel (colon) onto the surface of the tummy (abdomen). Your poo no longer passes out of your body through your back passage.

Colorectal cancer has become increasingly common in younger people, with one in five cases now diagnosed in patients in their early 50s or younger, according to the American Cancer Society.

Bowel cancer can start in the large bowel (colon cancer) or back passage (rectal cancer). It is also called colorectal cancer. This section is about treatment for colon cancer that hasn't spread to ...

Dec. 23, 2024 — A research team has developed a groundbreaking technology that can treat colon cancer by converting cancer cells into a state resembling normal colon cells without killing them ...