Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Katie Davis, now 21, started experiencing waves of intense stomach pain when she was 20. Doctors initially suspected a benign ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 35-year-old father thought he had appendicitis. Doctors diagnosed him with late-stage colon cancer instead. He has tweaked his ...

Mark Seguin was diagnosed with colon cancer at 35. He's discovered exercise can dramatically reduce the risk of colon cancer recurrence.Courtesy of Mark Seguin This as-told-to essay is based on a ...

The sigmoid colon stores fecal matter until you have a bowel movement. Some conditions affecting the sigmoid colon can cause pain in the lower left abdomen. The sigmoid colon is the section of the ...

Is sleep loss contributing to the increasing rate of colon cancer in young people? Can nerve cells in our skin be manipulated to ease hyper-sensitivity to touch for patients with autism? And can the ...

Every year, doctors diagnose more than 107,000 cases of colorectal cancer. While survival rates have improved, it's still the second-leading cause of cancer deaths in men and women combined. Knowing ...

A colonoscopy technique involving repeat intubation of the sigmoid colon significantly improves detection of adenomas compared with conventional colonoscopy evaluations, new research showed. “After ...

An 80-year-old man presented with progressive lower left-quadrant abdominal pain. Imaging studies identified a mass adjacent to the sigmoid colon, with features suggestive of an abscess, although no ...

The nonprofit Colorectal Cancer Alliance, armed with recent research showing “alarming gaps in knowledge and misconceptions” about the disease among Hispanics, is launching its first-ever ...

Time for a rear-ality check. Colorectal cancer rates have been rising among adults younger than 50 since the 1990s, a troubling trend that has perplexed scientists. Because of the increase in cases, ...