The recent death of the 48-year-old actor James Van Der Beek is again highlighting how colorectal cancer is increasingly ...

New guidelines released Wednesday recommend U.S. adults start colon cancer screening earlier, at age 45 instead of 50. The American Cancer Society's advice puts it out of sync with guidelines from an ...

More cases of colorectal cancer are detected at an early stage with screening. This is according to new research based on ...

If you're in your 40s, you might think colon cancer is something to worry about decades from now. But alarming new research reveals a dramatic shift in colon cancer rates among Americans under 50.

This article is brought to you by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana. Colon cancer has become more predominant across the nation in recent years, with the American Cancer Society estimating that ...

This distinction is crucial. Unlike a mammogram or a lung scan, which are primarily imaging tests to find existing tumors, a ...

Colorectal cancer was once considered primarily a disease of aging. But rates are now on the rise among younger adults. Since 2011, colon cancer rates among people younger than 50 have increased by ...

Diagnoses in people younger than 55 have nearly doubled since 1995. View Entire Post › ...

Overall cancer mortality among younger Americans has been declining for years. So why is colorectal cancer going in the opposite direction?

In this article a physician describes being diagnosed with cancer and her journey that occurred after diagnosis with colon ...