Bowel Cancer Screening campaign urges Victorians aged 45–74 to complete free at-home tests for early detection and prevention.

Australia’s peak bowel cancer prevention body would support lowering the screening age for the deadly illness to 40.

People as young as 45 should be invited to provincial and territorial programs to screen for colorectal cancer, says the Canadian Cancer Society. The call comes as emerging evidence suggests younger ...

LINCOLN, NEB — The Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department is offering free at-home colon cancer screening kits during Colon Cancer Awareness Month to help residents detect the disease early. The ...

For decades, colon cancer was largely seen as a disease of older adults. Doctors usually began screening after the age of 50. That assumption is slowly changing. Hospitals across the world are ...

A new American Cancer Society report shows colorectal cancer is rising in younger adults. Doctors urge people at average risk start screening at age 45.

Jackie Robertson leaves behind her only child Zac, 14, who is non-verbal.

RAPID CITY, S.D.— According to the American Cancer Society colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. But with early screening it also one of the most preventable ...

Kirsty Laing is determined to help others avoid her experience ...

March marks Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, an important opportunity to highlight one of the nation’s most preventable — but still deadly — cancers. Colorectal cancer affects people of all ages, ...

A large Australian study has uncovered new evidence linking the presence of two different types of bowel polyps to a substantially higher risk of advanced pre-cancerous changes. A routine colonoscopy ...

A new kind of blood test promises to find cancer early – sometimes even before symptoms appear. The pitch is compelling: a single sample of blood could scan the body for dozens of different can ...