A new report found that colorectal cancer causes more deaths than any other type of cancer, including breast and lung cancers. Experts explain why, and what it means for you.

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients who started adjuvant chemotherapy more than 6 weeks after colorectal cancer surgery achieved poorer DFS ...

In September 2023, Heather Barry knew something was wrong. She had welcomed her third daughter in May, and while the delivery had been complicated, Barry had recovered. She was "starting to get (her) ...

Neil Smart, consultant surgeon at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, leader of clinical trials, and editor in chief of Colorectal Disease, couldn’t give his lecture at last year’s annual meeting of ...

A mom recalls her first symptoms of colorectal cancer, which she mistook for hemorrhoids caused by her pregnancy at the time. Here's what led to her diagnosis at age 42.

The mental load of being a cancer patient.