Staging means finding out how far colon cancer has spread in your body. Physicians group colon cancers into stages I (1) through IV (4), with stage I being the least advanced and stage IV being the ...

Colorectal cancer has become the leading cause of death due to cancer for people under 50 in the United States. In the early 1990s, the disease ranked fifth. A new report from the American Cancer ...

Colorectal cancer is now the leading cause of cancer-related death among people under 50 in the United States, according to new evidence from the American Cancer Society. The evidence, published ...

Colorectal cancer is now the leading cause of cancer deaths among people younger than 50 in the United States, according to a study published Thursday in the Journal of the American Medical ...

Philip Felshman was given only a few years to live. The otherwise healthy New Yorker described the news as a "big shock." He'd been happily working for 33 years as a service manager, enjoying time ...

Neuroligin family genes expression associated with first-line treatment outcomes in patients (pts) with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC): Data from CALGB/SWOG 80405 (Alliance). This is an ASCO ...

Joe Faratzis is a former TV producer in California who was diagnosed with colorectal cancer at 29. In recent years, the number of young people diagnosed with colorectal cancer has risen sharply.

Claudia Umanita’s stomach pain started slowly in 2024, the kind of dull cramping that could have come from myriad common causes: constipation, her menstrual cycle, a virus. But stomach aches tend to ...

Dr. Bethany Malone has treated a lot of colorectal cancer patients. The youngest, not counting those with genetic conditions, was 19 years old. Colorectal cancer used to be considered a cancer of ...

Colon cancer diagnosis involves colonoscopy, imaging, and blood tests, with staging guiding treatment decisions. Stage 1 treatment typically involves surgery, while stage 2 may include chemotherapy ...

Advanced colon cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death in young American men and the second highest worldwide. In the majority of these patients, as the cancer advances it metastasizes to ...