Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

People who regularly have two drinks a day had a higher risk of colorectal cancer than adults who drank less than one drink per week on average. Adults who cut back on drinking can significantly ...

Standard adjuvant chemotherapy for stage III colon cancer consists of a fluoropyrimidine-plus-oxaliplatin regimen. Whether the addition of atezolizumab (an anti–programmed death ligand 1 agent) to a ...

SEATTLE — When we think of vaccines, we may think of them as a tool to fight infections, but scientists are increasingly considering vaccines as a way to fight cancer. In light of March as Colorectal ...

A Los Angeles mother of three says she’s lucky to be alive after an uncommon procedure left her cancer-free. Amy Piccioli, a busy CPA, was just 39 when she visited the ER last year for what she ...

Social media is usually rife with misinformation about how to boost health, and various tricks to your improve your digestion and gut microbiome are no exception. The truth is that a healthy, balanced ...

Colon cancer is appearing more often in younger adults, and many of those cases go undetected until the disease has already spread. Doctors are increasingly using aggressive, innovative treatments ...

Chris Kowalski, at 37-year-old father of two, has always been an active, energetic and passionate person, he tells TODAY.com. So, when he started to feel fatigued last March, people noticed, he says.

Colon, 52, is serving a 25 year to life sentence for the notorious Feb. 25, 1997 rape and murder of Samantha Nicole Zaldivar, who had turned 7 years old just two weeks before.

A Fairport man is charged with forcible touching in connection to a reported sex offense in Victor, according to the Ontario County Sheriff's Office. $11M improvement project begins on State Route 286 ...

Spencer Laird first noticed blood in his stool when he was 25. His doctor thought it was hemorrhoids caused by his work as a mechanic. Eighteen months later, a colonoscopy found colorectal cancer, ...

PLANT CITY, Fla. – A 16-year-old student at Plant City High School is in custody following an armed robbery on campus Friday morning. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office arrested Neftali Bautista ...