The 7 colon cancer symptoms to look out for early - Most people only see symptoms when the colon cancer has spread. Catching it sooner could save your life ...

On the gut health side of TikTok there's a genre of videos where people jokingly celebrate having a "ghost poop" -- a bowel movement where the first wipe comes back clean. Some have gone so far to ...

Time for a rear-ality check. Colorectal cancer rates have been rising among adults younger than 50 since the 1990s, a troubling trend that has perplexed scientists. Because of the increase in cases, ...

Meagan Meadows, a 24-year-old teacher, was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer. But almost brushed off her sole symptom: blood in her stool.

Colon cancer is the second-deadliest cancer in the US, partly due to low screening rates. New and emerging screening tools, like blood and breath tests, may offer alternatives to in-office screenings.

Colon cancer, which is also known as rectal cancer, or colorectal cancer, is a malignant growth of cells from the colon or ...

Automatically mailing a stool test kit to people's homes might be the best way to boost colon cancer screening among younger adults, a new study says. More 45- to 49-year-olds went ahead with cancer ...

An investigational multitarget stool DNA test for screening colorectal cancer detects significantly more cancers than the currently available fecal immunochemical test (FIT), researchers report. But ...

At 24, Meagan Meadows thought she was too young to have colon cancer but was diagnosed with stage 3. The only warning sign was blood in her stool, which she almost missed because it was difficult to ...

She discovered blood in her stool, and quickly received tests, scans and a biopsy, which revealed the cancer was spreading to her lymph nodes She admits that when she saw the bloody stool, she could ...