Colon cancer treatment is personalized based on stage, overall health and tumor characteristics. Early detection and accurate ...

A recent study shows that bacteria living inside colorectal tumors form distinct ecosystems that are closely linked to how ...

The right colon appears to age faster in Black people than in White people, perhaps explaining the higher prevalence of right-side colon cancer among Black Americans, according to results from a ...

Right-sided colon cancer may cause different symptoms than left-sided colon cancer. The first sign of right-sided colon cancer is often anemia caused by bleeding. Colon cancer is one of the most ...

The colons of African-Americans and people of European descent age differently, new research reveals, helping explain racial disparities in colorectal cancer - the cancer that killed beloved "Black ...

A theory that colonoscopies go better when patients are positioned on their right side rather than the left failed to win support in a randomized trial conducted in eastern Canada. Against the ...

The significance of KRAS mutations in advanced ovarian cancers treated by multitargeted therapy in Thailand. Radical treatment with weekly cisplatin (wCDDP) plus concurrent radiotherapy (XRT) in ...

Cancers on opposite ends of the colon are genetically distinct, researchers from Denmark and Finland have found. The standard practice of treating them as the same disease could explain why some ...

The splenic flexure is a part of your colon, or your large intestine, where it bends near your spleen, an organ that mainly filters your blood. It's also the place where many blood vessels come ...