As more people aged 45-49 are getting screened for colon cancer, more early stage diagnoses are being made, according to new ...

"It was not cancer, but there were three polyps that were pre-cancerous," Jones said ... suggests the test is about 86% ...

The American Cancer Society says an uptick in colon cancer cases in the 45-49 age group is a result of lowered screening ages ...

Colon cancer seems to be hitting the Black community hard. Over the past few years, colon cancer rates have steadily gone up ...

Even more colorectal cancer cases are being found in adults under 50, and a new collection of research suggests that a surge ...

But a year later, the bleeding kept coming back, and more prominently than before. Sometimes, I also had other colon cancer symptoms, such as inconsistent bowel movements. From writing more about ...

Colon cancer, also known as colorectal cancer, is a type of cancer that develops in the colon or rectum, the last part of the large intestine. It often starts as small, noncancerous clumps of cells ...

Every 1% increase in adenoma detection rate is associated with a 3% decrease in colon cancer mortality, so anything that can be done to improve polyp detection and reduce the impacts of cariable ...

And then, my grandfather was diagnosed with stage 1 colon cancer in late 2024. A GI appointment I canceled in 2024, when I first started worrying about my symptoms. Julia Pugachevsky/ZocDoc ...