The National Cancer Institute estimates that more than 150,000 people will receive a colorectal cancer diagnosis in 2025, and factors like gender, age, and family health history can increase your risk ...

Your digestive system works quietly behind the scenes, but when something goes wrong with your colon, early detection can be lifesaving. Many serious conditions develop gradually, making it easy to ...

Know the signs so you can catch it early ...

With more and more young people being diagnosed with colorectal cancer, it’s natural to be nervous about the disease. Rates of colorectal cancer in people under 50 have been increasing since the 1990s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kentucky has long carried one of the highest burdens of colorectal cancer in the nation. For too many families, it is a diagnosis ...

There’s a useful chart that can help you determine if your stool falls into a healthy or not-so-healthy category.

A woman who dismissed blood in her stool as hemorrhoids was diagnosed with stage three colon cancer. Meagan Meadows, 24, started experiencing blood in her stool in October 2024, but after chatting ...

Colorectal cancer is often spoken of as a single disease, but it actually refers to two related cancers: colon cancer and rectal cancer. The latter was recently revealed as the reason we lost the ...

Kentucky has one of the highest rates of colorectal cancer in the US, but early detection leads to a 91% five-year survival rate. Colorectal cancer is projected to become the leading cancer killer for ...