“Don’t downplay what you’re seeing,” said Danielle Ripley-Burgess ...

One of them is so easy to shrug off that the UK’s biggest cancer charities list it alongside bleeding.

Lucinda Ball was 35 when she was diagnosed with stage 3 bowel cancer. She had no symptoms that would have led her to suspect ...

When your large intestine, or colon, is working smoothly, you hardly think about it. But when it isn't functioning properly, it can create a host of problems far beyond constipation or diarrhea. It ...

Digestive discomfort affects nearly everyone at some point, but persistent symptoms can signal two very different conditions that millions of people struggle to distinguish. Irritable bowel syndrome ...

Just weeks after her 17th birthday, Danielle was diagnosed with stage three colon cancer - the start of a 25-year battle in ...

You've probably heard that some types of cancer are mysteriously rising in people under age 50. Right now, the list includes colon and rectal cancers, followed by uterine, blood, kidney and breast.

Colon cancer is the fourth most prevalent cancer in the UK, and the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths, according to Bowel Cancer UK. It is also increasingly being diagnosed in young people ...

“I just immediately thought, ‘What a wonderful life I’ve had,’ ” the 67-year-old said ...

For the hundreds of thousands of people who undergo sphincter-preserving surgery for rectal cancer each year, saving the sphincter muscle is only half the battle. Many survivors are left with a ...