Alarmed by the color and frequency of the blood in her stool, Mahon was referred to a GI doctor who initially thought she had an autoimmune disease. “Once I got the colonoscopy, she told me that she ...

Patients with colon cancer who still have cancer cells in their blood after surgery may improve their survival odds with ...

People with first-degree relatives who were repeatedly diagnosed with colorectal polyps appeared at increased risk for ...

Bowel cancer can start in the large bowel (colon cancer) or back passage (rectal cancer). It is also called colorectal cancer. This section is about treatment for colon cancer that hasn't spread to ...

As presented at the 2025 ASCO GI Cancers Symposium: in the phase 3 BREAKWATER trial, patients with previously untreated BRAF V600E metastatic colorectal cancer received the BRAF inhibitor ...

Abstract: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a multifaceted disease, but it can be effectively prevented through colonoscopy for the detection of polyps. In clinical practice, the development of automatic ...

“We know that 1 in 20 people develop polyps in their colon during their lifetime and 1 in 6 polyps can potentially turn into a cancer. There is good evidence to suggest that removing polyps ...

Colon or colorectal cancer affects your large intestine (colon) or the end of your intestine (rectum). The cancer starts when abnormal lumps called polyps grow in the colon or rectum. If you don’t ...

Colon cancer often begins with abnormal growths in the colon called polyps. Screening tests, like colonoscopy, can find these polyps before they become cancerous. This allows your healthcare provider, ...

About 107,320 new cases of colon cancer (54,510 in men and 52,810 in women ... There are a number of likely reasons for this. One is that colorectal polyps are now being found more often by screening ...

silkwayrain/Getty Images New research suggests that biological age — a measure of the body’s physiological state — could predict who is at higher risk for developing colon polyps ...

When performing surgery for colic for any reason in an old horse, we do prophylactically remove all pedunculated lipomas from the small intestine and small colon to prevent this problem in the future.