A stiffer colon may be an early warning sign of rising colorectal cancer in younger adults. What researchers are discovering ...

More young people are getting diagnosed with colon and rectal cancer. About 10% of colon cancer cases in the United States have been amongst people under 50, with numbers increasing by about 1% to 2% ...

Khalil Smith thought he was just training hard and adjusting to college life. It turned out his stabbing stomach pains were a ...

Your digestive system works quietly behind the scenes, but when something goes wrong with your colon, early detection can be ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A new study on colon screenings is creating ...

A Missouri woman who has warned young 'healthy, active' people to 'listen to their body', after her colon cancer symptoms were dismissed by doctors as exhaustion and hemorrhoids. Jill MacDonald was a ...

To be a fly on the intestinal wall. A routine cancer checkup took a revolting turn after medics discovered a fully intact fly in a man’s colon while conducting a colonoscopy, per a skin-crawling study ...

When Brooks Bell was 38, doctors told her she was too young to have colon cancer, dismissing her textbook symptoms as "likely hemorrhoids." A few months later, after pushing for tests, the North ...

Obesity, diet, or environmental factors could be playing a role. A major new study has found that more and more young people are being diagnosed with late-stage colon cancer, prompting renewed calls ...

Doctors found a fly in the colon of a 63-year-old man during a routine colonoscopy. They suspect the fly was swallowed, and were shocked to find it fully intact. Although it's rare, this isn't the ...

A 14-year-old dancer was diagnosed with terminal colon cancer after suffering years of pain and being dismissed by her doctors. Liberty 'Libbie' Ashworth from Panora, Iowa, first began complaining of ...