The cost of colonoscopies and increasingly strict US insurance company policies are driving down rates of colorectal cancer detection in an age group that experts say is at particular risk. Paige ...

If you have advanced colon cancer, there's a chance the cancer ... If they go into your lymphatic system, the cancer can spread to your lymph nodes. This can make your lymph nodes feel hard ...

Background This study was designed to identify risk factors for lymph node metastasis of early stage colorectal cancer, which was confirmed to a carcinoma that invaded the submucosa after radical ...

including mid to distal transverse, descending, sigmoid, and rectosigmoid colon. § = ratio of the circumference of tumor to luminal circumference. † = Lymph node, ‡ = Lymphovascular invasion ...

It may also have grown into the muscularis propria, or the third layer of colon tissue (T2). Stage 1 cancer has not spread to nearby lymph nodes (N0) or distant sites (M0). Stage grouping ...

Zoe Gardner-Lawson’s symptoms began in August 2024 with a dull pain in her lower back but the 36–year-old mom, who hails from ...

A mother of three was “shocked” to discover she was suffering from stage 4 bowel cancer after doctors initially diagnosed her ...

These terms are not interchangeable. While colorectal cancer is the umbrella term for both colon and rectal cancer. As the ...

There is no cancer in the lymph nodes. Surgery is the main treatment. People with very early colon cancer (stage 1) do not usually need chemotherapy. But this might change after surgery. After your ...

particularly if it has perforated the colon and/or appears at risk of resurging after surgery. Stage three, when the cancer has spread to nearby lymph nodes but not to other organs, requires ...