TUPELO — The age range for colon cancer screenings lowered in recent years to include younger individuals as the incidence rate of colon cancer shifted. Dr. Stephen Amann, a gastroenterologist at ...

A new report found that colorectal cancer causes more deaths than any other type of cancer, including breast and lung cancers ...

Adults who had 14 or more drinks per week over a lifetime had a 25 percent higher risk of colorectal cancer — but cutting ...

Kentucky has long carried one of the highest burdens of colorectal cancer in the nation. For too many families, it is a diagnosis that comes too late and with too few effective treatment options. But ...

Colon cancer is the second-deadliest cancer in America. It's not deadly because it's particularly hard to treat or because oncologists are bad at spotting it. In large part, it's because people aren't ...

For years, the gold standard in screening for colon cancer has been a colonoscopy. But a colonoscopy is a medical procedure that involves length prep work, along with being put under, making it ...

Colorectal cancer was once considered primarily a disease of aging. But rates are now on the rise among younger adults. Since 2011, colon cancer rates among people younger than 50 have increased by ...

Meanwhile, mortality from other leading cancers is declining ...

March is Colon Cancer Awareness month. This is the time of year that we dedicate to increasing public awareness about a condition that continues to claim the life of over 50,000 Americans annually, ...