Who needs to worry about colon cancer, and what tests will we be able to use in the future for early cancer detection?

Recent studies have reported beneficial effects from intravenous neostigmine as treatment of acute colonic ileus. If pharmacologic therapy fails, colonoscopic decompression should be performed.

Research shows young adults with colon cancer are often diagnosed late and face more aggressive forms of the disease, ...

Once the dilated colon is identified ... perforation or an incipient perforation requiring more aggressive surgical treatment.

As many of us have experienced, the COVID-19 pandemic affected our lives. But at the beginning, I was receiving treatment for ...

A new study reveals some of the most common barriers preventing Black people from getting recommended colon cancer screenings ...

Rates of colon cancer among young people have been steadily rising over the past three decades, even as diagnoses among older people decline. A staggering 20% of colorectal cancer cases in 2019 ...

The gold standard test for colon cancer is a colonoscopy, which is the only test that allows both diagnosis and treatment in the same procedure. The diagnosis is done by looking around in the ...