On Wednesday, Padres manager Bob Melvin revealed that third base coach Matt Williams would be away from the team for an undisclosed amount of time after being diagnosed with colon cancer.
Cases of colon cancer have risen in younger people by 2% a year since 2011. Knowing the signs and symptoms is crucial for ...
FOX 2 (WJBK) - A Rochester Hills man says his body was trying to tell him something was wrong, but in his late 40s he ignored symptoms and it cost him a lot. He hopes telling his story will make a ...
Nov. 16, 2023 — A new scientific finding is the foundation for the first clinical trial in the U.S. to study an experimental drug's ability to fight pancreatic cancer with metastasis to the ...
Ulcerative colitis (UC) can increase your colorectal cancer risk, but recent research suggests colorectal cancer rates are dropping among people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), such as UC.
The death of actor Chadwick Boseman, 43, who starred in “Black Panther” among other movies was stunning. It also brought to ...
Metastatic breast cancer is cancer that’s spread from your breast to other areas of your body. While rare, it’s possible for breast cancer to spread to your colon and rectum. When breast ...
You start from the GI tract, you go into the esophagus, the stomach, the small bowel, and then you hit the colon. And at the very end of the colon is the rectum. So, in a sense, rectal cancer is ...
Resection is another name for any operation that removes tissue or part of an organ. Bowel resection, also called partial colectomy, removes a diseased or damaged part of the colon or rectum. Bowel ...
Colorectal cancer (often called colon cancer, for short) starts in the colon or rectum. While any adult can develop colorectal cancer, it's more common in men than women and in people of African ...
A nationwide study of 196 cities shows that housing discrimination from 90 years ago still casts a historical shadow of inequities in colon cancer care today, S.M. Qasim Hussaini, M.D., of the ...
It can be hereditary. There are two different types that are definitely hereditary. One is called familial adenomatous polyposis where the patient has multiple polyps in the colon and they carry ...