Mount Nittany Health is proud to announce the addition of Asna Amin, MD, FACS, FASCRS, a board-certified and ...

"If I would have known that so many young people were getting diagnosed with colon cancer, I would have taken the symptom ...

Lynne Fisher has Lynch Syndrome, which raises her risk of colon cancer. March 12, 2013— -- What would you do to reduce the chance of dying of cancer? How far would you go if you had a 70 to 90 ...

Most people with colon cancer begin treatment by having surgery to remove their cancer. If colon cancer has spread beyond your colon, you might have chemotherapy first. This can help treat cancer ...

Rates of colon cancer in people under 50 have grown in recent decades. One study found that 82% of young colon cancer patients were misdiagnosed initially. Two women who had colon cancer in their 30s ...

COLUMBUS COUNTY, N.C. (WECT) - Colon cancer is the number two leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States and 90% of colorectal cancer cases occur in people over the age of 50. There is now an ...

Margaret Kelly has been donating blood regularly since her youth. “I started donating blood back when I was in my 20s. I really saw a lot of people suffering and sick, and back then there was a blood ...

Q: I was diagnosed with diverticulitis, which caused a bowel perforation. I had a sigmoidectomy, no problem, and a resection.

HealthDay News — Rural residents with colon cancer are significantly less likely to undergo minimally invasive surgery (MIS) and significantly more likely to experience worse outcomes compared with ...

Low-dose aspirin use was linked to a 55% lower risk of colorectal cancer recurrence in people with a genetic mutation that ...

Researchers found that 160 milligrams of daily aspirin significantly lowered cancer recurrence risk for colorectal patients ...