More than a decade after removal of an adenoma—a precancerous mass—from the colon, alterations to the gut microbiome and metabolites remain and may drive heightened risk of colorectal cancer (CRC), ...

Among patients with high-risk malignant colorectal polyps, 19% had residual disease, with rates of 25% in the immediate surgery group vs 9% in the nonoperative management group. The rate of rectum and ...

Researchers studying over 8,400 colonoscopies discovered that having both adenomas and serrated polyps in the bowel can raise the risk of serious precancerous changes by up to five times. These two ...

Chronic inflammation may be quietly reshaping the colon and making it more vulnerable to early-onset colorectal cancer. Scientists found that colon tissue in younger patients was stiffer, even in ...

People with Lynch syndrome, the most common hereditary predisposition to colorectal cancer, face a markedly increased cancer ...

Every year, doctors diagnose more than 108,000 cases of colorectal cancer in the United States. While survival rates have improved, it's still the second-leading cause of cancer deaths in men and ...

This Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, we stand alongside every citizen courageously battling colon or rectal cancer, we pay tribute to those who lost their lives to the disease, and we renew our ...

More than a decade after adenoma removal, women still carried gut microbial and metabolic signatures that partly mirrored colorectal cancer, pointing to a possible hidden biological link between past ...