A healthy colon is about five feet long, two and a half inches in diameter, and weighs two to three pounds. The average American’s colon weighs ten to fifteen pounds. It is not uncommon for an ...

Colonoscopy is what doctors consider the gold standard to test for colon cancer and polyps, or growths on the inside lining of your colon or rectum that can turn into cancer. Colon cancer is often ...

Intestinal contents build up behind the abnormal segment of colon, swelling the bowel and abdomen. Hirschsprung's disease causes about 25 percent of all newborn intestinal blockages, but is also ...

Colorectal cancer might not cause symptoms right away, but if it does, it may cause one or more of these symptoms. Colorectal cancers can often bleed into the digestive tract. Sometimes the blood can ...

Eating enough fiber is a crucial way to reduce your risk of colon cancer, a type of cancer that’s on the rise in people 50 and younger in the US. (It’s recommended that women eat roughly 25 ...

A three-year exercise program showed better survival rates and lower recurrence in colon cancer patients. This trial suggests exercise coaching should become standard care along with traditional ...

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Jim Ross is back home. The legendary broadcaster posted on social media Monday that he was home recovering following surgery last week to remove cancer from his colon. “Made it home from the hospital ...

Experts said cancer centers and insurance plans should consider making exercise coaching a new standard of care for colon cancer survivors. Patients can increase their physical activity after ...

A three-year exercise program improved survival in colon cancer patients and kept disease at bay, a first-of-its-kind international experiment showed. How expressing gratitude can transform your ...