Mail-in stool kits such as Colorguard can detect warning signs, but gastroenterologists say a colonoscopy is still the most ...

A woman who dismissed blood in her stool as hemorrhoids was diagnosed with stage three colon cancer. Meagan Meadows, 24, ...

Once they say cancer, you don’t hear anything else,” said the veteran actress, who was diagnosed with stage 2 colorectal ...

A woman says she dismissed a sign of colon cancer as being a result of haemorrhoids. Meagan Meadows, 24, a teaching graduate ...

A new blood test for cancer DNA — the genetic code that differentiates cancer from healthy tissue — allows doctors to ...

According to Dueker, any noticeable alteration in your bowel habits could be a potential red flag (but, he stressed, is not ...

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Q. My father died of colon cancer back in 1999. His brother and sister both died of colon cancer too, so this is a big concern in our family.

Rates of colorectal cancer are rising, especially for people younger than 50. But it's hard to raise awareness for a cancer that a lot of us find hard to talk about.

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 ...

A woman was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer at age 24 and said she almost missed a major warning sign of the disease.

Days of Our Lives star Suzanne Rogers is opening up about being diagnosed with stage II colon cancer. The veteran actress — ...