Colorectal cancer is a serious but preventable disease if detected early. Advances in diagnostics, such as biomarker analysis ...

Early-onset CRC (EO-CRC) was associated with Flavonifractor plautii and increased bile acid, tryptophan, and choline ...

People with chronic conditions are more likely to attribute bowel habit changes to medication side effects rather than ...

Investigators assessed whether a reported survival disadvantage in men with secondary rectal cancer following prostate cancer radiation therapy vs primary rectal cancer is due to patient ...

but the doctors couldn't do the procedure because she had a 2-inch tumor completely obstructing her rectum. That's when she was diagnosed with Stage 3 rectal cancer that had spread to her lymph ...

“For patients with rectal cancer in Stage 2 or Stage 3, we give chemotherapy and radiation, followed by another course of chemotherapy,” Dr. Finan said. “After that, we look at the patient ...

Patients who develop secondary rectal cancer after receiving radiotherapy for prostate cancer have worse survival outcomes than patients with primary rectal cancer, and several factors may be driving ...

CHICAGO - At Northwestern, surgeons are able to not only save a Chicago cartoonist's life but her fertility as well. Iona ...

Patients with secondary vs primary rectal cancer had 6.2-fold shorter disease-free survival ... and had smaller, earlier-stage tumors. They had significantly higher rates of distal rectum tumors ...