Bowel Cancer Stories
- New research has found a link between using antibiotics for an extended period of time and developing growths in the bowel later in life, a precursor for bowel cancer.
- Look around at your family, friends and acquaintances: It seems like most people get cancer at some point, right? Here's what the science says.
- Should you get regular colonics? Doctors warn that pumping water up your rectum is not good for your health.
- There are many reasons that cancer hasn't been cured yet — but money-making isn't one of them.
- Don’t like all of your organs? No problem — you can live without a whole bunch of them.
- These 6 natural laxatives, from chia seeds to kombucha, can help alleviate constipation by making you poop instantly.
- As of Jan. 1, 2016, more than 15.5 million Americans have a history of cancer; in 2026, this number will reach more than 20 million.
- President Obama promised to undertake a national effort to cure cancer, a “new moonshot” with Vice President Biden in charge of “mission control.”
- Pears, which are commercially grown in Washington, California, and Oregon, provide vitamin C and necessary fiber all for a mere 100 calories.
- More than half of those invited to take a new colorectal cancer screening test decided against doing so.
- National Cancer Survivors Day, which is intended to raise awareness of cancer patients' ongoing challenges, will be celebrated across the country this Sunday, June 7.
- Colon cancer risk starts increasing for teenagers who are very overweight or obese.