Time for a gut check. About 150,000 Americans are diagnosed annually with colorectal cancer, which occurs when cells in the colon or rectum grow out of control. While colorectal cancer is ...

Colon cancer cases are soaring in young people, alarming experts and leaving doctors scrambling for answers as to why. Now, a study published by a team of international researchers in the journal ...

Serum ferritin of 100 ng/mL or less is a reasonable indicator for prompt colonoscopy among men with unexplained anemia. Older patients with unexplained anemia are often referred for colonoscopy as ...

Emily King of Mobile, Alabama, was diagnosed with colon cancer five years ago at the age of 27. She had experienced some diarrhea, abdominal pain and anemia, but having cancer had never entered ...

In addition, some cancers, such as colon cancer, can cause bleeding, which siphons off more red blood cells "There is something called the anemia of chronic disease," explains Stephen Nimer ...