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 ...

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, ...

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, and there’s an important trend doctors want people to know about: colon cancer is being diagnosed more often in younger adults. For decades, colorectal ...

If you’re under 50, it’s likely that colorectal cancer isn’t on your radar, but it should be. Once considered an older-age disease, rates are skyrocketing among young adults. Deema Zein spoke with two ...

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Nearly half of Americans don’t know that processed meat increases colorectal cancer risk, according to a new poll. But once they learn the connection, most support warning labels—suggesting people ...

Standard adjuvant chemotherapy for stage III colon cancer consists of a fluoropyrimidine-plus-oxaliplatin regimen. Whether the addition of atezolizumab (an anti–programmed death ligand 1 agent) to a ...

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, an opportunity to raise awareness of what people can do to avoid dying from colorectal cancer, the second leading cause of cancer death in America and one ...