'Very Active' Dad, 37, Thought He Had Sore Abs. It Was Stage 4 Colon Cancer

But it wasn't until he started to feel an odd pain that he thought something was off, too. "I started to get a little bit of upper right rib cage pain that I thought was an abdominal muscle," he says.

Young mother’s colorectal cancer symptoms dismissed as childbirth side effects for years before stage 3 diagnosis

Marisa Peters, 44, a mother of three and former Broadway vocalist, first noticed bleeding when going to the bathroom after ...

The concerning rise of colorectal cancer in young adults

Dr. Aparna Parikh from the Mass. General Brigham Cancer Institute discusses the reasons behind the surge of colorectal cancer ...
Malaysia Sun

Two types of colon polyps can raise bowel cancer risk fivefold: Study

Researchers find in a study that two types of colon polyps can raise bowel cancer risk fivefold. These two polyp types may represent separate cancer pathways that can occur at the same time. Nearly ...

A young dad's colon cancer spread to his lungs with no warning. He says a clinical trial led to a miracle.

Spencer Laird was diagnosed with colon cancer at 26. At 30, he was told it had returned and spread to his lungs, with one tumor the size of a golf ball.

A dad's colon cancer spread to lungs. He says was happened next was a miracle.

Spencer Laird was diagnosed with colon cancer at 26. At 30, he was told it had returned and spread to his lungs, with one ...

UW Health experts urge people to get screened for colorectal cancer

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, and with more than 55,000 related deaths expected in 2026 alone, UW Health experts say it’s time to get screened.
SciELO

PREVALENCE OF SERRATED POLYPS AND THEIR ASSOCIATION WITH SYNCHRONOUS COLORECTAL ADVANCED ADENOMAS

Background: Serrated lesions are the precursors of up to one-third of colorectal cancer (CRC) cases and share molecular and epidemiological features with interval CRC. Previous studies have reported ...
WVTF

UVA studies why cancer rates are higher in SW Virginia and what's behind rising rates of colon cancer in young adults

The recent deaths of two young actors from colorectal cancer has put a spotlight on the rising rate in people under 50. At the University of Virginia, a national expert on the subject says it’s also ...
gut.bmj

Cold versus hot snare endoscopic mucosal resection for large (≥15 mm) flat non-pedunculated colorectal polyps: a randomised controlled trial

Correspondence to Dr Michael J Bourke, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Westmead Hospital, Westmead 2145, New South Wales, Australia; michael{at}citywestgastro.com.au Background and aims ...
IEEE

RePolyp: A Framework for Generating Realistic Colon Polyps with Corresponding Segmentation Masks using Diffusion Models

Abstract: The field of synthetic medical data has become increasingly important due to the urgent need for large and diverse datasets in the medical sector. Using diffusion models in data generation ...
The Hindu

Apollo Speciality Hospitals perform zoom-assisted endoscopic procedure on 80-year-old woman

Apollo Speciality Hospitals removed a 15-cm colon lesion in an 80-year-old woman using a zoom-assisted endoscopic procedure, avoiding open surgery .The patient had been experiencing rectal bleeding ...