The recent death of the 48-year-old actor James Van Der Beek is again highlighting how colorectal cancer is increasingly killing younger people. Overall, cancer death rates in people younger than 50 ...

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

More than 100,000 Americans will be diagnosed with colon cancer this year, according to estimations by the American Cancer Society (ACS). Medical professionals generally agree that getting a ...

Even though her birth mother died from colorectal cancer in 2018, Brianna Dean kept putting off getting a colonoscopy for years. Dean didn’t think she needed one. She was young. She felt healthy. The ...