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 ...

Review highlights gut microbiota dysbiosis as an emerging colorectal cancer risk factor, with microbial signatures, including Fusobacterium nucleatum, showing promise as non-invasive biomarkers to ...

"My doctor told me I needed a colonoscopy to check for colon cancer, but is that true?" Dr. Ashlee N. Godshalk Ruggles, a board certified, fellowship trained colorectal surgeon from Capital Health ...

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

A new FDA-approved blood test designed to detect colon cancer earlier is now available in North Texas. An estimated 154,270 people in the U.S. will be diagnosed with colorectal cancer this year. It's ...

1 in 5 people being diagnosed with colorectal cancer are under age 55.

A single-center study supported recommendations to lower the colorectal cancer screening age from 50 to 45. Screening colonoscopy outcomes were slightly less frequent in people ages 45-49 versus 50-54 ...

The researchers examined the five leading causes of cancer death among the under-50 age group. They found that overall, from 1990 through 2023, more than 1.2 million people died of cancer in the ...