Colorectal Cancer Stories
- Colon cancer is one of the most common and one of the deadliest cancers. Here’s what you need to know about it.
- Don’t like all of your organs? No problem — you can live without a whole bunch of them.
- A new survey has predicted that by the year 2030, as many as 5.5 million women worldwide will die each year from largely preventable cancers.
- Researchers have created a new test that may be able to detect the earliest stages of colon cancer in stool samples, with encouraging results so far in mice.
- These are the four most common cancers to be diagnosed in women, plus the risk factors that make women even more likely to develop them.
- These are the five most common cancers in men — from prostate cancer to melanoma skin cancer — and how to reduce your risk.
- There is a connection between retinoic acid, a compound derived in the body from vitamin A, and the suppression of colorectal cancer in mice and humans.
- Recently, the team at SciShow weighed the facts over which pooping position may be better for your health.
- The US Preventive Services Task Force wants every adult between the ages of 50 to 75 to get screened for colorectal cancer, with its newly updated recommendations emphasizing that most screening methods can substantially cut down the risk of dying from it.
- Sexually transmitted diseases, type 2 diabetes, and eating disorders are among the six conditions trending younger than in the past.
- 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.
- While overall rates of colorectal cancer have been slowly declining in recent years, rates are rising among young adults.