The recommended age to start screening for colorectal cancer was lowered in 2021 from 50 to 45 for people of average risk.

Colorectal cancer is the second most common cause of cancer-related death in women and the third most common in men. Since the 1980s, the incidence of colorectal cancer in individuals 50 and older has ...

Ditch tobacco and limit alcohol. Smoking is strongly associated with colon cancer, says Lenz, so quitting tobacco is vital to ...

HARTFORD, Conn. (WFSB) - The state of Connecticut is now offering free cancer screenings for hundreds of firefighters. At Bradley Airport Fire Station 1 Tuesday morning, firefighters were busy trying ...

Computed tomography (CT) colonography has been shown to be both cheaper and clinically more effective than multitarget stool ...

Dr. Neelendu Dey studies whether gut microbes can be harnessed to prevent and treat colon cancer. He factors the latest ...

Hemorrhoids and colon cancer can both cause symptoms of rectal bleeding, but diagnosis and treatment are different. It's important to get either condition diagnosed.

Patients and providers find the Colon Age tool acceptable and useful for individualizing colorectal cancer risk and encouraging earlier screening.