UPMC Hillman Cancer Center is exploring everything radiation treatment can treat, and the success has been life-changing for people.

Cases of colorectal cancer in young people have risen nearly 60 percent since the early 2000s. That’s according to data from ...

When someone is diagnosed with colorectal cancer - which includes both colon and rectal cancers - many people immediately think "surgery." And it's ...

When someone is diagnosed with colorectal cancer—which includes both colon and rectal cancers—many people immediately think "surgery." And it's true that surgery plays a central role in treatment for ...

According to the American Cancer Society, colorectal cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death in men and women in the U.S., and one recent survivor ...

When David Thau, a lobbyist in Washington, D.C., was 34, he periodically experienced pain in his stomach, irregular bowel movements, blood in his stool and vomiting, and he visited doctors ...

Dr. Eric Dozois, a colon and rectal surgeon at the Mayo Clinic says that cancer cases in Minnesota have been on the rise with patients under 50, with 10 percent of colorectal cases now being in that ...

When Janice Johnson went to the hospital for what she thought was food poisoning, she had no idea it would lead to a cancer diagnosis in her 40s. Despite her immediate fear, Janice refused to accept a ...

Colon cancer is appearing more often in younger adults, and many of those cases go undetected until the disease has already spread.

I was more scared to go on chemo than I was to find out I had cancer again.” Chemotherapy would have limited the amount of time he was able to spend with his daughter due to the side effects, such as ...

Piedmont Oncology physicians want to educate people about colorectal cancer and what you can do to decrease your risk of developing it or enable an earlier, more curable diagnosis.