Researchers Develop Gel to Deliver Cancer Drugs for Solid Tumors ... Gut Microbiome Changes Linked to Precancerous Colon Polyps May 31, 2023 — A new study has linked certain types of gut ...

With more and more people below the age of 50 being diagnosed with the illness, the medical community is urgently trying to ...

and learned that he had cancer. "It was a 14 centimeter mass, which is (about the) size of a softball," he says. And it was wrapped around his colon in the shape of a donut. First, he and his ...

In fact, by the time someone does flag blood in the stool, it may no longer be an "early symptom" of colon cancer. "Blood in ...

WEDNESDAY, April 24, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Long-term daily use of aspirin has been known to prevent colon cancer, but up to now it’s been unclear why that is. Now, researchers think they ...

And at the very end of the colon is the rectum. So, in a sense, rectal cancer is worse, because it's very low, many times if it's really low, in order to remove it, the patient has to have a ...

Colon cancer has the fourth highest incidence and is the second highest cancer for mortality in the United States. Sunita Jayakumar, M.D., internal medicine specialist at WVU Medicine Barnesville ...

Cases of colon cancer have risen ... but now the age has been moved back to 45 in recognition that more young people are getting colorectal cancer. So please get your colonoscopy," Dr. James ...

Colon cancer has a five-year survival rate of 91% if it's localized and 13% if it's distant, with an overall survival rate of 63%. Rectal cancer has a five-year survival rate of 90% if it's ...

Cancers that are confined within the wall of the colon are often curable with surgery while cancer that has spread widely around the body is usually not curable and management then focuses on ...

Then there's another form called nonpolyposis colon cancer, or HNPCC is another term they use for it. And in this, again you should know if your family has this, and the way you can find out about ...

Cases of colon cancer have risen in younger ... as a screening method at the age of 50, but now the age has been moved back to 45 in recognition that more young people are getting colorectal cancer.