A new study now shows more younger people are developing and dying from colorectal cancers. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that more white Americans ...

The results of a new study show the rate of colon cancer death in the United States for people with low socioeconomic status increased between 1980 and 2008 while it decreased during the same period ...

Colon cancer is increasingly drawing attention in the United States, as cases among younger adults rise even while overall rates continue to fall. Once considered a disease primarily affecting older ...

Deaths from cancer have declined by 33% since 1991, averting 4.1 million deaths. However, more people are being diagnosed with cancer than ever before, and at an earlier age, according to a major new ...

Here’s some gut-wrenching news. A troubling complication of colorectal cancer, the third-most common cancer in the US, is showing up in young adults at alarming rates. The American Cancer Society ...

A study finds that $100 rideshare rides for follow-up colonoscopy after fecal immunochemical test (FIT) doubled completion rates, reduced colorectal cancer (CRC) deaths, and lowered health care costs.

ATLANTA (AP) — The racial gap in colon cancer death rates is widening, a new report says, and experts partly blame blacks' lower screening rates and poor access to quality care. Colon and rectal ...

New research reveals that certain social determinants of health-such as socioeconomic status, household characteristics, and racial/ethnic minority status-have significant effects on rural–urban ...

Don’t stall — your butt is on the line. Because of this worrisome trend, the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) lowered its recommendation for starting colorectal cancer screening from age 50 ...

Patients who survive colorectal cancer face a sustained and increased risk of death from chronic liver disease and cirrhosis ...

Kentucky has one of the highest rates of colorectal cancer in the US, but early detection leads to a 91% five-year survival rate. Colorectal cancer is projected to become the leading cancer killer for ...

Although the risk of death from colorectal cancer in the United States has dropped dramatically in recent decades, there are three "hot spots" in Appalachia and the rural South where death rates are ...