Health insurance companies send all kinds of things in the mail: brochures about benefits, branded items such as coasters and duffel bags, and reminders to get certain health tests done. Some have ...

There's been a steep increase in colon cancer cases among adults 45 to 49 in recent years, and that's a good thing, experts say. This upsurge means that more colon cancers are being caught at an ...

A single-center study supported recommendations to lower the colorectal cancer screening age from 50 to 45. Screening colonoscopy outcomes were slightly less frequent in people ages 45-49 versus 50-54 ...

The American Cancer Society has recommended early screening of colorectal cancer for those with average risk and those with high risk. According to the guidelines, anyone aged 45 years should get ...

Meanwhile, mortality from other leading cancers is declining ...

Colon cancer is one of the most preventable cancers, yet its early symptoms are often overlooked or mistaken for minor ...

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

Colorectal cancer was once considered primarily a disease of aging. But rates are now on the rise among younger adults. Since 2011, colon cancer rates among people younger than 50 have increased by ...

Kentucky has long carried one of the highest burdens of colorectal cancer in the nation. For too many families, it is a diagnosis that comes too late and with too few effective treatment options. But ...

A new report found that colorectal cancer causes more deaths than any other type of cancer, including breast and lung cancers ...

(NewsNation) — More than 150,000 cases of colorectal cancer are estimated to have been diagnosed in the United States this year, but the overall rate of colon or rectal cancer diagnoses have dropped ...