The sigmoid colon — the part of the large intestine nearest to the rectum — tends to be more “free floating” than other parts of the colon, says Dr. Alyson Cunningham, a colorectal surgeon ...

Ashland County health officials are seeking grant money to increase at-home colorectal cancer screening kits — despite a ...

Diseases of the GI tract include irritable bowel syndrome and colon cancer. A minimally invasive procedure used to diagnose intestinal symptoms and look for the presence of abnormal tissue in the ...

She blamed irritable bowel syndrome, constipation and even a tight bra. Looking back, she had some classic symptoms of colon ...

Symptoms of colon cancer (also called colorectal cancer) are the same for everyone, regardless of a person’s sex or gender. There are no symptoms specific to women. It’s worth noting that some ...

Alarmed by the color and frequency of the blood in her stool, Mahon was referred to a GI doctor who initially thought she had an autoimmune disease. “Once I got the colonoscopy, she told me that she ...

A young mother has revealed the symptoms that led to her stage 3 colorectal diagnosis. A staggering 20 % of colorectal cases in 2019 were discovered in people younger than 55, up from 11% in 1995.

Colorectal cancer develops gradually, often without obvious early warning signs. This characteristic makes it particularly dangerous, as symptoms might not appear until the disease has advanced.

Radwah Oda was just 30 when she was diagnosed with colon cancer, an illness that seemed to come out of the blue. But looking back, she’d been experiencing symptoms for about a year without ...