Physicians are seeing troublingly rising rates of colon cancer among people under 50, even though colorectal cancer has long ...

What’s left is poop, a.k.a. stool, which is stored in your rectum until you’re ready to have a bowel movement. “The presence ...

18 An earlier colon cancer study involved a trained Labrador Retriever analyzing the breath and stool samples of healthy controls and CRC patients enrolled in a clinical trial. After smelling ...

A Minnesota woman was told her stage 4 colon cancer couldn’t be cured. Two years later, she’s cancer-free — and says a ...

Up to 90% of colorectal cancers can be cured if caught early. Learn about screening options at Fred Hutch to protect your health.

When Peters first noticed blood on toilet paper after bowel movements at age 33, her doctors quickly dismissed it as a ...

FIT is a colon cancer screening test you can do at home. It comes in a kit and is fairly quick, simple and convenient to use. FIT is a noninvasive, stool-based test. You use the kit to take a sample ...

Marisa Peters experienced blood in her stool and an urgency to go starting at 33. At 39, she learned she had Stage 3 colorectal cancer.

Medically reviewed by Qin Rao, MD Colon cancer is a type of cancer (abnormal cells growing uncontrollably) that begins in the ...

They evaluated outcomes of a systematic outreach program that started in 2007, reminding patients who were overdue for colon cancer screening and sending them convenient at-home stool tests. Screening ...

Some risk factors for colorectal cancer can’t be changed, like your age, sex, genetics and personal or family history of ...