In this video, Suneel Kamath, MD, a gastrointestinal medical oncologist, shares insight about a recent study that showed previous or current heavy drinking is linked to an increased risk for ...

Researchers from A*STAR Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (A*STAR IMCB) have identified markers of two critical stem cell populations that drive colorectal cancer formation. Colorectal cancer is ...

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Chronic inflammation may be quietly reshaping the colon and making it more vulnerable to early-onset colorectal cancer. Scientists found that colon tissue in younger patients was stiffer, even in ...

A major health crisis may be rooted in an unlikely source. That’s according to new research out of Spain, which suggests a widely used weed killer could be fueling the alarming rise in early-onset ...

A newly discovered virus hiding inside a common gut bacterium could help explain one of medicine’s long-standing mysteries: why a microbe found in both healthy people and cancer patients is linked to ...

Schematic representation of the microbiome study design of 937 CRC patients from the Uppsala-Umeå Comprehensive Cancer Consortium (U-CAN) cohort. A recent study shows that bacteria living inside ...

It's not the same old colon cancer anymore. Research presented this week at the world's largest cancer conference points to unique factors that distinguish young colon cancer from traditional cases.

You are what you eat — and it could come back to haunt you. Colorectal cancer had long been considered a disease that primarily affects older adults, but cases in people under 55 have been steadily ...