A woman was experiencing a common symptom of colon cancer for years, but doctors dismissed it as pregnancy-related. She was diagnosed with stage 3c.

Bowel cancer is the fourth most common cancer in the UK. It is more common in the over-50s but it can affect people of all ages. More than 2,700 people under 50 are diagnosed with bowel cancer in the ...

“You can’t just say this is a disease of older people anymore,” said Lee Hicks, medical director of medical oncology and ...

Colon cancer is no longer a disease that only elderly suffer from. Even younger women at the age of 50 are also suffering ...

According to the doctor, colorectal cancer often starts with no symptoms at all. Many people feel completely normal while precancerous polyps silently grow inside them for years.

Doctors are warning early-onset bowel cancer should now be considered a “new disease”, with cases in young Australians surging and behaving differently to traditional bowel cancer. Bowel cancer is now ...

Even though rectal bleeding is alarming, doctors say patients are ashamed to mention it, delaying colon cancer diagnosis and treatment.

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