Research from molecular biologist Ludmil Alexandrov, from UC San Diego, offers insight into colon cancer as it's the third most common type of the disease ...

1 in 5 people being diagnosed with colorectal cancer are under age 55.

Colon cancer symptoms often don't exist. An active woman shares how repeated nudges from a loved one led to her diagnosis: "My entire life changed that day." ...

Colon cancer is one of the most preventable cancers in the United States, but each year it claims more than 50,000 lives – in part because early symptoms can be mild and easily missed. “Colon cancer ...

If you're in your 40s, you might think colon cancer is something to worry about decades from now. But alarming new research ...

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Colon cancer is rising in people under 50, and poor gut health could be part of the problem. Dr. Neelendu Dey studies whether gut microbes can be harnessed to prevent and treat colon cancer. To reduce ...

Dr. Usman Shah, who is a medical oncologist at Overlook Medical Center, phase 1 and gastrointestinal oncology medical director, emphasized in an interview with CURE that colorectal cancer screening ...

Colorectal cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths in the United States, and as the years pass, it’s clear that the degree of people under 50 that are being diagnosed with the ...

Colorectal cancer — which includes cancer of the colon and of the rectum — is considered early onset when diagnosed in people under the age of 50. While the majority of diagnoses are still among ...