Patient Education Tool: 6 Colorectal Cancer Screening Posters The CDC, as part of its Screen for Life: National Colorectal Cancer Action Campaign that informs men and women about the importance of ...

Colorectal cancer refers to cancers of the colon and rectum, which are both a part of the large intestine. Getty Images Normally, we prefer our bowels to keep it low-key. But experts say that silence ...

Staging means finding out how far colon cancer has spread in your body. Physicians group colon cancers into stages I (1) through IV (4), with stage I being the least advanced and stage IV being the ...

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 ...

Colorectal cancer can cause bleeding from polyps in the digestive tract. This can lead to iron deficiency anemia. Oral and intravenous iron may help, but there may be some risks. Persistent bleeding ...

Symptoms of colon cancer (also called colorectal cancer) are the same for everyone, regardless of a person’s sex or gender. There are no symptoms specific to women. It’s worth noting that some people ...

Colorectal cancer has long baffled scientists because, unlike most tumors, patients often do better when their cancers are ...

One large study found that more advanced cases of colorectal cancer had a higher likelihood of returning. For example, if participants had stage 3 colon cancer, almost 25 percent experienced a ...