A doctor said he's seeing a growing number of patients under age 45 with colorectal cancers. He recently treated a 22-year-old with stomach pain. She had a tumor so big it nearly blocked her colon.

A new study suggests the rise of young colon cancer may be linked to a common weed killer. More evidence is needed to tie the herbicide definitively to young colon cancer. It's a first clue for what ...

Share on Pinterest New research links a common pesticide to epigenetic changes that may relate to colorectal cancer. Image credit: Getty Images A new study suggests that environmental and lifestyle ...

CHICAGO — Colorectal malignancy rates, particularly for rectal cancer, are accelerating among Americans younger than 45, and unless something changes, the rate is predicted to continue increasing out ...

Researchers are finally getting to the bottom of a troubling trend. Once considered a disease of older adults, colorectal cancer has now overtaken breast and brain cancers to become the leading cause ...

A newly discovered virus hiding inside a common gut bacterium could help explain one of medicine’s long-standing mysteries: why a microbe found in both healthy people and cancer patients is linked to ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The worrisome rise in colorectal cancer deaths in younger adults is concentrated in people with less education, suggesting socioeconomic factors could be driving the escalation, ...

Deaths from rectal cancer are rising rapidly among younger adults, an alarming trend that is confounding scientists trying to understand why millennials are so hard-hit. Subscribe to read this story ...

Genomic profiling is crucial in metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC) management: RAS and BRAF alterations govern prognosis and eligibility for targeted therapies. The expanding landscape of RAS directed ...

A study led by José A. Seoane, Head of the Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology's (VHIO) Computational Biology Group identifies for the first time the exposome footprint—the set of environmental and ...