Hidden within cancer DNA data, researchers uncovered viruses and bacteria that may influence both diagnosis and survival.

Colon cancer is now the deadliest cancer for people under 50, and researchers are scrambling to understand why rectal cases are driving the trend.

An increasing number of individuals under 50 are being hit by a disease once thought to belong to the elderly. While experts have long suspected poor diets, sedentary lifestyles, and pollution as the ...

Dr. Bethany Malone has treated a lot of colorectal cancer patients. The youngest, not counting those with genetic conditions, was 19 years old. Colorectal cancer used to be considered a cancer of ...

New data found that colorectal cancers are increasing in younger patients, even as they're decreasing in older people. Here's ...

Younger and middle-aged people need to be more watchful for signs of colon cancer, which is increasingly affecting millennials and not being picked up until it is dangerously late. The journal Annals ...