Not all colon polyps are cancerous but all colon cancer starts as a polyp which is why everyone needs to know about them and ...

An unexpected delivery at your door may not always be an unwelcome surprise — just ask one Kentucky boy about the thousands ...

Colon cancer is a highly preventable disease if you follow dietary guidelines and undergo screenings, such as a colonoscopy.

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I’m due for my first colonoscopy, and I understand that the physician will be looking for polyps. What are they? Should I be worried if they find some? ANSWER: Good for you for ...

According to Dueker, any noticeable alteration in your bowel habits could be a potential red flag (but, he stressed, is not ...

Katreena Davis of Georgia CORE discusses how the troubling rise of colon cancer in young people and Black people in ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The polyp removed from President Joe Biden's colon last week was a benign, slow-growing but potentially pre-cancerous lesion that required no further action, his doctor said in a ...

A. A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine (Dec. 5, 1991) concluded that “Regular aspirin use at low doses ...

Q. My father died of colon cancer back in 1999. His brother and sister both died of colon cancer too, so this is a big concern in our family.

Colorectal cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths in the United States, and as the years pass, it’s clear that the degree of people under 50 that are being diagnosed with the ...

The results of a new study show that narrow band imaging used during colonoscopy is accurate enough to allow distal non-cancerous polyps to be left in place, according to a news release (pdf). Results ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – A doctor’s report says the polyp removed from President Joe Biden’s colon last week was a benign, slow-growing but potentially pre-cancerous lesion that required no further action.