Colon cancer can announce its presence with symptoms like abdominal pain or cramping, bloody stools, and one lesser-known sign: change in poop shapes.The National Cancer Institute estimates that more ...

I used to think only obvious symptoms were a cause for concern, but after learning more about bowel health and colon cancer, I realized that even small changes in stool can sometimes be early warning ...

Colon cancer is on the rise in younger people. A doctor said many people are missing an early warning sign because too they're embarrassed to check.

At-home FIT screening involves testing stool for amounts of blood too small to see, which can help to diagnose colon cancer ...

Each year, close to 2 million people around the world are diagnosed with colorectal cancer and roughly 935,000 people die from it. Scientists say they have developed a new stool test that is more ...

An estimated 52,500 Americans died last year from colon cancer, yet the disease is highly treatable if it's detected early. Primary care and prevention experts from the U.S. Preventive Services Task ...

The most common symptom of rectal cancer is rectal bleeding. This red flag is particularly “much more common” in younger ...

People of average risk for colon cancer should get a screening or colonoscopy earlier than previously advised.

Cologuard is a colon cancer screening test you can do at home. It’s a noninvasive, stool-based test that comes in a kit. You use the kit to collect a stool sample. Then you send the sample to a lab ...

(COLORADO SPRINGS) — A team in Colorado Springs is saving lives through bowel movements and they’ve won a very “prestigious” award for their work: The Golden Poop. “We had an initiative across Peak ...