Ellie Wilcock, battling stage 4 bowel cancer, shares her overlooked early symptoms: persistent left-side abdominal and pelvic ...

Discover the pros and cons of Shield, the FDA-approved cell-free DNA blood test for cancer detection shows false-positive ...

Learn about whether Medicare covers virtual colonoscopies, also known as a CT colonography or CT colonoscopy. This article ...

Ankylosing spondylitis and inflammatory bowel disease can occur together. Learn the connection between them and how doctors ...

Colorectal cancer, also known as bowel cancer, is a cancer formed by uncontrolled cell growth in the colon or rectum (parts of the large intestine), or in the appendix. Genetic analysis shows that ...

People are three times more likely to undergo at-home colon cancer screening if they're provided a free test, a new study says. About 30% of patients mailed a free stool test kit completed their ...

With early-onset colorectal cancer, a person below the age of 50 experiences uncontrollable growth of cells in their colon (the bowel or large intestine) or rectum (the final section of the large ...

Martyn Edwards, 52, was diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer in 2016 which had spread to his liver. He shares how he beat it ...

During flexible sigmoidoscopy small polyps (<1 cm) were removed and sent for histopathological analysis. Patients were sent for colonoscopy for the presence of any polyp ≥1 cm, ≥3 adenomas ...