Health insurance companies send all kinds of things in the mail: brochures about benefits, branded items such as coasters and duffel bags, and reminders to get certain health tests done. Some have ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- A panel of health experts wants U.S. adults to start getting colon cancer screenings at age 45, five years younger than it previously recommended. While overall, colon cancer rates ...

Meanwhile, mortality from other leading cancers is declining ...

A single-center study supported recommendations to lower the colorectal cancer screening age from 50 to 45. Screening colonoscopy outcomes were slightly less frequent in people ages 45-49 versus 50-54 ...

The American Cancer Society has recommended early screening of colorectal cancer for those with average risk and those with high risk. According to the guidelines, anyone aged 45 years should get ...

Kentucky has long carried one of the highest burdens of colorectal cancer in the nation. For too many families, it is a diagnosis that comes too late and with too few effective treatment options. But ...

(NewsNation) — More than 150,000 cases of colorectal cancer are estimated to have been diagnosed in the United States this year, but the overall rate of colon or rectal cancer diagnoses have dropped ...

A new report found that colorectal cancer causes more deaths than any other type of cancer, including breast and lung cancers ...

Overall cancer deaths in adults under 50 have gone down over the past 30 years. But colorectal cancer deaths have risen about ...