Traditionally, treatment for colorectal cancer meant surgery, often leaving patients with a colostomy bag for life. But Patty ...

A new report found that colorectal cancer causes more deaths than any other type of cancer, including breast and lung cancers ...

Deaths from the disease are rising while U.S. cancer mortality overall is declining and 70% of Americans survive their ...

The researchers examined the five leading causes of cancer death among the under-50 age group. They found that overall, from ...

A biopsy and imaging confirmed Behnke had Stage 3b colorectal cancer. "It had broken through the rectal wall and was in some ...

A new treatment for rectal cancer is allowing some patients to avoid surgery. Doctors are seeing more young adults diagnosed ...

Fewer people under age 50 are dying from cancer in the U.S., but colorectal cancer mortality rates continue to surge ...

Colorectal cancer has since jumped up from being the fifth-leading cancer death in the early 1990s.

Meanwhile, mortality from other leading cancers is declining ...

Doctors recommend screening for this disease starting at age 45.