As an employee of Henry Ford Health for more than 20 years, Brooke Wessman focused on health care process improvement in ...

Doctors say millions are waiting too long to get screened ...

TURLOCK, Calif. — Carlos Perales’ life is like a lot of people's. He’s been working from home for almost two years, he’s a father and stepfather to a house full of kids and he shares his home office ...

An 85-year-old Central Georgia man said early detection and a minimally invasive procedure helped treat his tumor. Macon ...

Colon cancer is appearing more often in younger adults, and many of those cases go undetected until the disease has already ...

CDC study finds that 2 out of 3 Americans are getting tested for colon cancer. July 6, 2010— -- More and more adults over the age of 50 are getting screened for colon cancer, according to a new ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Colon cancer is the third most common cancer. However, there's now been a shift as to who it's impacting. "What's interesting is, ...

Colorectal cancer symptoms a Mayo Clinic gastroenterologist monitors in himself include seeing blood with a bowel movement and abdominal pain.

Younger colorectal cancer patients have abnormally stiff colon tissue that promotes tumor growth, pointing to biomechanical ...

A man in his early 70s died after adjuvant chemotherapy due to fulminant gastrointestinal toxicity and bowel ischaemia linked to an undetected dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPYD) deficiency, ...

Unusually stiff colon tissue and collagen buildup in younger patients may promote faster tumor growth, offering clues for earlier diagnosis and new prevention strategies.