Japanese golf legend Masashi Ozaki died at 78 after battling stage 4 sigmoid colon cancer. The disease develops in the lower ...

Large studies link high red and processed meat intake, low fiber diets, smoking, heavy alcohol use, obesity, and sedentary ...

Out of the blue a few days before Christmas, Beth Grenham started experiencing agonizing stomach pain. It was worse than what she went through while giving birth without anesthesia, she says, and so ...

Robotic-assisted surgery for colorectal cancer (CRC) demonstrated positive outcomes, with minimal blood loss and low conversion rates in 355 cases. The Senhance Robotic System was used in sigmoid ...

A colonoscopy technique involving repeat intubation of the sigmoid colon significantly improves detection of adenomas compared with conventional colonoscopy evaluations, new research showed. “After ...

Colon cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related deaths. It typically begins as a small growth of tissue called a polyp in the lining of the colon or rectum. While not all polyps become cancerous, ...

Images of positive CT colonography (CTC) screening examination result in an asymptomatic 67-year-old man. Three-dimensional colon map from CTC (left image) shows the location of two sigmoid polyps ...

Just when she thought life couldn’t get busier, New Jersey mom of six Elaine Griffin got diagnosed with Stage 2b colon cancer. “I was very shocked, and I think the doctors were as well because it ...

Every year, doctors diagnose more than 107,000 cases of colorectal cancer. While survival rates have improved, it's still the second-leading cause of cancer deaths in men and women combined. Knowing ...